Holistic Product Design: Ideate, Prototype, Test
Faculty Profiles

Rachel Inman
Interaction Designer at Google

Munish Dabas
Senior UX Engineer at Google
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Overview
This course teaches a holistic, iterative approach to digital product design. Students will be introduced to the structure of a design sprint, a method commonly used throughout the product development process. They will learn how to quickly and effectively ideate using proven group brainstorming and sketching methods, then bring their ideas to life using digital prototyping tools. Finally, students will employ their prototypes in user testing. This course will be fast-paced and highly collaborative.
Learning highlights
- Design sprint methodology
- Industry-standard group brainstorming methods
- Rapid sketching and ideation
- Rapid prototyping
- Digital prototyping with Principle
- User research and testing methods
- Product presentations
- Critiquing your own work and that of classmates
Course outline
4 classes
• Overview of Holistic Product Design process
• Defining your problem space
• Overview of and identifying the best user research methods to fit your needs
• Deep dive into ethnographic research methods
• Deep dive into usability testing methods
• Prototyping – How it fits into the process (non-digital methods)
• Prototyping (con’t) – Using digital tools
• Demo of Principle
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Prerequisites
This course is one of three in a wholistic series.
Students that have already taken MSL-111 and those with prior experience with HTML, CSS, and Javascript building simple web pages will be good candidates for this module.
Leading UX design for Project Sunroof at Google, Rachel works on a diverse set of projects across Geo and Google Maps. She's focussed on elevating high-impact data atop maps, putting beautifully aggregated information in the hands of scientists, policy makers, advocates, educators, and community members.
Rachel has also worked at the innovative digital agency, R/GA, where she created better user experiences for Nike and Samsung. She has been honored to speak about her work on stage at IxDA's Interaction South America, Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture & Design, San Francisco's GIS Day, and in written form with Net Magazine and Look At Me.
See full profileA Senior UX Engineer at Google, Munish applies his user-centric iterative design approach to lead prototyping efforts across Google Maps. Prior to Google he was a product design lead at Amazon, lead technologist at Sports Illustrated Digital where his work garnered awards from the FWA and AdAge, and an interactive developer at Fantasy Interactive.
With regards to academia, he taught Interactive Design at NYU and has lectured on Google Design and prototyping at SJSU and Savannah College of Art & Design. His hybrid education includes an MFA from Parsons, and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science.
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Holistic Product Design: Ideate, Prototype, Test
by Rachel Inman, Munish Dabas
Total hours
45 Hours
Dates
May 21 - Jun 08, 2018
Fee for single course
€1500
Fee for degree students
€750
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FAQ
Will I receive a certificate after completion?
Yes. Upon completion of the course, you will receive a certificate signed by the director of the program your course belonged to.
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Can I get a discount?
Yes. The easiest way to enroll in a course at a discounted price is to register for multiple courses. Registering for multiple courses will reduce the cost per individual course. Please ask the Admissions Office for more information about the other kinds of discounts we offer and what you can do to receive one.