To ensure that you develop the digital products that your target users want and need, Spirit Softworks can define user requirements for your products and help you to

• understand what features, functionality, and attributes your products must have to
• meet the needs of your target users
• support your target users’ tasks or information needs
• accord with your target users’ mental models
• meet your target users’ data-processing needs
• refine key product concepts
• determine the appropriate scope of your products’ feature sets, so your development effort stays focused on essential features that users find useful
• define feature sets for your products that are as comprehensive as possible from the very beginning, to
• establish goals for future releases
• avoid redesign and the relearning that it necessitates for users
• ensure a well-organized, better integrated user experience over the life of your product

Optimizing Your Products’ User Experience

When defining user requirements for revisions of your existing digital products, Spirit can also identify the aspects of their current user experience that need improvement—for example:

• workflows that do not optimally support users’ tasks
• features that have usability problems
• text or visual elements that require greater clarity or an improved appearance
• features that impair accessibility
• frequently used functions that need shortcuts
• important functions that require a more convenient placement
• infrequently used or unnecessary features that should be moved to positions of less prominence

Spirit can recommend enhancements to your digital products’ user experience to solve such problems and optimize their user experience.

Benefits of User Requirements Definition

Well-defined user requirements are grounded in user research and help ensure that your digital products

• meet your target users’ needs—including those needs that their current work processes or existing products do not adequately address
• support workflows that accord with your target users’ mental models of their tasks
• offer functionality that adequately supports your target users’ tasks—while not making unreasonable cognitive demands on them—through the appropriate allocation of tasks to users and your products
• can achieve success in the marketplace