Eight steps of digital health app development
These pages outline the steps and factors to consider throughout the development lifecycle of a mental health digital product, including both wellness and software as medical devices products. This includes in-depth points around implementation, commercialisation and choosing a tech provider.
The steps are designed to act as a checklist for researchers and the phases do not have to be completed one-by-one and consecutively but instead they will often (and ideally should) overlap. Firstly because that makes the process more efficent and secondly because actions and thinking from one phase may influence and improve actions and thinking in another.
In this section
Project initiation: What’s the idea?
Market research: What is already available?
Requirement Analysis - What is needed and by whom?
Development timeline - how much and how long will it take?
Prototyping & Design
Iterative development – How to build the product?
Quality assurance and testing – Will it work, and will it work well?
