Exploration tends to be a messy but necessary stage, where designers experiment with different elements, combine them, and test how they coexist in order to find the most effective way to organize information.

At this point, my role was not to actively design, but to guide the exploration using the insights gathered during the strategy phase, research findings, and ongoing feedback sessions with the team. Rather than introducing new ideas, I focused on helping designers stay grounded in what we had already learned.

I paid particular attention to the insights from the card sorting sessions. Since the team had already agreed on using drawers as a key interaction pattern, the main challenge shifted to defining the right information hierarchy and order. Exploration helped us test those decisions visually and validate whether they aligned with users’ mental models.