Activity Diagram
What is an Activity Diagram?
An activity diagram is a block diagram of sequential and parallel activities that capture user interactions with a product, service or system.
Why an Activity Diagram?
It brings clarity to our understanding of the user activity flow, and can be used to discover opportunities for automation, removing unnecessary steps users take, combining functions and potential failure modes.
Procedure
Best Practices
Demo Video
This video gives you a walk-through on how to create an Activity Diagram, through a worked example of a Autonomous Vehicle Design Challenge.


Examples
Here are examples of Activity Diagrams done for products, services and systems.
References
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Hammer, M. (2014, August 01). Reengineering Work: Don't Automate, Obliterate. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/1990/07/reengineering-work-dont-automate-obliterate
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Teo, K., Wee, Y., Swee, A., Altybayeva, A., Gopal, M., Kamiso, N., Foo, D., Lauff, C., Wood, K.L., “Design Innovation (DI) Learning Modules,” SUTD-MIT International Design Centre (IDC), SUTD, Singapore, idc.sutd.edu.sg, 2018.