[badfrog]

These are very important steps to creating something, but there's not really anything new here.

This is basically a simplified version of the design thinking framework with the implied "build" step at the end made explicit.

For example, the process that has been taught at Stanford for years is: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test. The first two steps could map to "understand" here with the last three falling among "design" and "build" depending on the fidelity of your prototype.

PDF link to an overview from Stanford: https://dschool-old.stanford.edu/sandbox/groups/designresour...