A good workflow leads to greater efficiency, better organization, and purposeful design. With the abundance of websites and apps available in the digital world, workflows for designers have significantly improved compared to any time in the past. Now, designers can create mood boards online, allowing us to gather all relevant information, inspirations, and primary ideas in one place.
These tools make it easy to access and share resources with colleagues or team members. This helps streamline and document the design process, keeping everything organized in one location.
The image below is my visual framework/mood board for the Neurodiversity awareness campaign:

Breaking the design process into a few clear steps enhances possibilities throughout the journey. It simplifies the workflow, clarifies the message, and integrates theoretical research, visual elements, and inspirations that have been purposefully chosen to define the outcome and its characteristics based on the content and audience.
The design workflow is the record of the design process. It guides the design toward a more precise and refined outcome. This approach not only fosters professionalism in a project but also saves time and effort by ensuring we don’t have to start over in case of failures or setbacks.
In my earlier workflows, I struggled with relying too heavily on traditional methods instead of leveraging available digital platforms. This lack of organization negatively impacted both the efficiency of my process and the quality of the outcome. It often felt like a waste of time and effort, as my process documentation was unclear, and the elements weren’t cohesively connected. With key elements scattered across different places, I would carelessly start over with new ideas, forgetting past considerations, ideations, conclusions, and decisions.
Now I begin my workflow by researching the main content which is provided in the task. Including gathering information and visual inspirations from different sources such as the internet and library. All these things come together as a visual framework/mood board. This process is followed by primary ideas and creating mockups, sketches and doodles. In production and real making, there might be failures; I consider these as experiments, which can feel like a loop to the ideation and experiments and that is when software skills and problem-solving skills come in handy to get the best outcome after a final review.

Digital platforms like Miro, Figma, Behance, and Prezi allow designers to work with various formats and information quickly and efficiently. These tools not only document the design process but also make sharing with others seamless. They help keep all the collected information secure, ensuring the time and effort spent gathering it isn’t wasted.

Most of these platforms also offer AI-powered features and media, such as photos, icons, and patterns, available in their libraries, which designers can use or draw inspiration from.
- Pretzi: https://www.prezi.com
- Miro: https://www.miro.com
- Unsplash: https://www.unsplash.com
- Behance: https://www.behance.net
- Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com
- Adobe Stock: https://stock.adobe.com
- Pixabay: https://www.pixabay.com