Designartefakter

Designartefakter are the tangible and digital outputs produced during the design process to encode knowledge, decisions, and proposals about a product or service. They serve as a shared reference for teams and stakeholders and can range from early explorations to production-ready documents.

Common forms include user research notes, personas, journey maps, task analyses, information architecture diagrams, sitemaps, wireframes, mockups, interactive prototypes, design specifications, style guides, component libraries, and service blueprints. Artefacts may be created on paper or in digital formats and are often iterated as insights emerge.

The primary role of designartefakter is to facilitate communication among designers, developers, product owners, and users; to justify decisions; to test hypotheses; to plan implementation; to document requirements; and to support evaluation and iteration. They help translate abstract ideas into concrete guidance and provide a reference during development and QA.

Lifecycle and governance are key considerations. Artefacts are typically produced in discovery and ideation phases, refined through design sprints, tested through user feedback, and handed over to engineering. They are often living documents, versioned and linked to requirements, and should remain maintainable across releases. Good practices include clear ownership, proper metadata, and archiving strategies to support reuse and traceability.

In practice, the set of artefacts used varies by discipline—industrial design, interaction design, or service design—but all serve to capture and communicate the rationale, constraints, and intended user experiences driving the design.