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This is an interesting model of the User Experience “tunnel,” as you call it. I wonder why you’ve made it seem so linear? It’s practically the programming waterfall method but mapped to UxD, which hardly seems the case of real life. Having been on programming and design teams, and will have my masters in interaction design this May, I have a real issue with such diagrams because they give the wrong impression to those outside the field.

My apology for late reply. You have a valid question. I had made this tunnel diagram when i was working for service company in 2001. In that company, most of the time, the development managers and developers use to ask us what would we be doing when they do coding or scoping. Their concern was , these UX designers will be seating idle until they write the requirement doc and all the function doc with primary working code. Earlier in the services companies (India), the UX designers were just considered for making interaction flows and visuals of already frozen requirement doc.
So we had to do lot of evangelizing about UX and then make such diagrams to tell that UX designers can do some activities when developers/program manager/ product managers are busy doing initial scoping.

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