Supporting teams with designing for dissemination and sustainability: the design, development, and usability of a digital interactive platform

Table 1 Overview of design process and results

Exercise	Description	Overall Design Impact
Design Session 1
1.1	how the tool could benefit and empower users	Goal of tool: Increase the transparency of D4DS and accessibility to multiple audiences, and foster collaboration Primary users of the tool: researchers (with various level of D&I knowledge/background) 35 potential features
1.2	who might benefit from using this tool
1.3	persona creation^a and value proposition generation exercise
1.4	Free listing possible features
1.5	Prioritizing features
Design Session 2
2.1	Kano Methodology^b	13 features selected Key content areas: dissemination; education/literature; grant language; partner engagement; sustainability planning; methods
2.2	free list any other feature ideas and identify their favorite feature from the Kano survey
2.3	grouped features into content areas for learning
2.4	prioritized the most important content areas
Design Sessions 3–5
	iteratively envisioning and creating wireframes of the features that were prioritized	Wireframes for 1) account creation, 2) a questionnaire that would allow users to set-up a project and guide them on how best to use the tool, 3) a roadmap or visual process that walks the users through the D4DS process, 4) and the landing page

^aPersona creation is defining different user types that might use our tool and how they may interact and benefit from the tool
^bKano Methodology is a survey used to prioritize potential features [40, 41]. The model classifies features as Must-have (i.e., I expect it and would be dissatisfied without it), One-dimensional (i.e., I expect it), Attractive (i.e., I like it), and Indifferent (i.e., I’m neutral)

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