Here's a single page worksheet you can use to collect your throughs before your next project. It provides space to consider your project in terms of the UXD stack, a column to identify possible activities / deliverables to consider, and prompts you to decide what's the next logical step to take for your project.

1. Project Kick Start for: Name / Date
Purpose General Tasks
Why are the stakeholders What kinds of activities will help further define
investing in this project? each of these attributes?
Elevator pitch Mad-Lib
Personas
Field Study
Audience
Who are the primary
Use Cases
(and other) users?
Process Flow
Site Map
Wireframes
Branding Workshop
Content
What do people want to Comps
know or do while using
the site or application? Fi-Hi Prototype
Form
What logical or visual
style will move the app
from functional towards
meaningful?
Next Step!
What’s the single, specific next action required
to start this project?
Technology
What tech considerations
are required to deliver
this experience?
Questions? mkraemer@credera.com