NICE Project Builder

Document a design project using Situation, Needs and Necessities, Inquiry, Create and Communicate, and Evaluate.

Use this builder while you work through a design project. Your entries are turned into a project document below. Needs are pass/fail requirements. Necessities are scored factors that help compare and improve a design.

Project

Project title

Name or team

Start here

Situation

What is happening? Who is involved? Where will the design be used? What problem or opportunity do you see?

Describe the situation

N

Needs & Necessities

Needs are specific pass/fail requirements. Necessities are factors where more or less can be better.

Needs

Need: what must the design do?	Why is it needed?	How will you test it?	Remove

Necessities

Necessity: what would make it better?	Why does it matter?	Importance /10	Remove

I

Inquire & Investigate

Record what you investigated, how you did it, what you learned, and how that learning could affect the design.

What did you investigate?	How?	What did you discover?	What does this mean for your design?	Remove

C

Create & Communicate

Make the simplest useful version that lets you test the idea and show it to someone else.

What did you create?

How did you communicate or test it with others?

What feedback did you get?

Evidence

E

Evaluate

Test the design against the same requirements you wrote at the beginning. Then decide whether the requirements or situation also need to change.

Test the needs

Need	Result	Evidence or notes

Score the necessities

Necessity	Importance /10	Result /10	Weighted result	Evidence or notes

Did the situation change? Not sure yet No Yes

Do any needs or necessities need to change? Not sure yet No Yes

What did you learn?

What should happen next?

Generated document

Your NICE Project Document

The document updates as you type. Blank rows are left out of the export.

Save PDF opens your browser print dialog with only the generated project document visible. Choose Save as PDF.

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