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Raphaël: Hey, and welcome back to
our series on EC's methodology.

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Last time we clarified some
terminology around what an app is.

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Today we'll cover the importance
of sketching out ideas before

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building your digital product.

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First things first, you'll want to come
up with at least some basic designs.

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These could literally be just some
rectangles representing screens

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with some basic arrows showing how
people should interact with them,

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like a step up from napkin drawings.

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As with many things, there
are a few questions you should

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answer before you start.

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Specifically, we like to think
of who, why, what and how.

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If you're at the point that you're ready
to build an app, you should definitely

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have a who and a why, and you probably
have an inkling of a what, because you've

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decided that you want an app of some sort.

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We frame the technical stuff, like
how the code is written and what

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technologies we're gonna use as the how.

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But before that we need a what?

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That's where design comes in.

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When some people think of design,
they think make it pretty.

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But before that, we need to design
features, flows and screens.

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Features, address a user's needs
a flow, addresses the steps that

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lead them through that feature,
and a screen allows us to identify

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what they need to see at each step.

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Having an idea of what we need
to build gives us the information

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we need to determine how we're
going to go about implementing it.

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This is not a one time thing.

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We may have a rough idea for the
long term plan for the app, but we

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will constantly need to design new
features and update existing ones.

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We'd love to hear what your
design process is like.

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Feel free to get in touch and
let us know, what has worked

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well for you or what hasn't.

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We'd love to learn from your
experiences as well as share our own.

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Follow us if you wanna keep up with this
series, we have a lot more to share.

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We're constantly updating our process
and trying to learn from ourselves,

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our partners, and our community.

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And if you think we could work
together, we'd love to hear from you

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about how we could partner up and
help you launch your next project.

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See you next time.