A high-level strategic overview helps put my mindset into the right context by understanding corporate strategy, differentiating values and competition.

Some key checklist items:

• Do I understand where the project is standing in the world of design strategy?
• Are we solving the problem at a strategic or tactical level?
• Are we introducing or optimizing?
• Do we understand why we are doing it?

With business objectives in mind I interact with the right people in the right way to extract information I need to design effectively.

Some key checklist items:

• Have I identified answers to what questions I need to be able to answer myself to ensure design solutions really address the problem in question?
• Have I identified the right participants I need to interact with?
• Do I know what the best ways of interacting with these participants are?

With my own research objectives in mind, I give meaning to all I have so far, categorize, discuss, iterate and deliver findings in the most suitable way.

Some key checklist items:

• Are answers to my own research objectives clear, i.e. am I ready to conceptualize solutions?
• Have I identified the right representations of summarizing and delivering my findings?
• Can I identify any high-level, key directions of design?

With all my observations, pain points and potential opportunities in hand, I identify key themes and deliver multiple interactive, content-friendly design solutions. I try to aim for least known and risky functionalities, we all have a good understanding on how login would work...

Some key checklist items:

• Am I matching common expectations and maintaining consistency?
• Have I identified the best representation of delivering potential design solutions?
• Is the level of fidelity of these deliverables high-enough to make sure all is clear to users?

Using the available solutions I reach out to users and key stakeholders to identify areas to revise and keep.

Some key checklist items:

• Do these solutions make sense to test participants?
• Do individual solutions work well together, i.e. is the groundwork right?
• Is the content right?
• Have I identified any common patterns across all feedback?

With all the feedback I make changes as necessary until I get to a single solution that keeps all parties smiling.

Some examples...

A prototyping framework based on UI technologies that extends Axure's capabilities to allow UXers to deliver much richer prototypes in terms of interactions and visual language. It automatically integrates visual design specs and supports dynamic and instant re-skinning by hierarchical theming. More than happy to showcase.

Another example could be a web-based user interface development framework that generates production ready, maintainable and scalable code that enforces UI development best practices. The framework helps bridge the gap between Design and Development by allowing the development team to quickly restructure the page while maintaining quality.