Building a Product: From Inception to Prototype
Faculty
Ron Wilde
User Experience Designer / Founder at Gap'cork llc
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Skills you’ll learn
Overview
The module will explore the core processes used to create engaging and delightful user experiences. Students will create a thesis project from inception to prototype using industry best practices.
The module will build on concepts related to identifying and understanding what people need from the products we design, and how best to effectively communicate those needs through effective organization and design principles.
Students will implement a “user experience toolkit” including concepts related to problem framing, product requirements, information architecture, user flows, wireframes, prototyping and user testing.
By the end of the module, students will have created a testable product from start to finish using the techniques described above.
Learning highlights
- The primary objective is for students to develop a minimum viable product (MVP).
- How to frame a problem without being prescriptive of any single solution
- Apply research methodologies to understand the problem space
- How to define potential users based on research findings
- How to define primary tasks and features
- How to define the product scope based on time, budget and available resources
- How to define a content strategy
- How to organize content to inform design
- Create designs that inform navigation, scale, hierarchy, and interaction patterns
- Create a prototype that helps achieve the primary user goals
- How to test with users and gather feedback
- How to apply feedback and further iterate on the design and prototype
Course outline
6 classes
• Intro to User Experience
• Research Methods
• Developing Personas
• User Stories & Feature Prioritization
• Product Requirements
• Information Architecture
• Content Strategy
• User Flows
• Sketching Solutions
• Wireframes, Part 1
• Responsive / Native Design Patterns
• Visual Design Basics
• Prototyping, Part 1
• User Testing, Part 1
• Building a Case Stydy
• Incorporating Feedback
• Ideation and Iteration
• Wireframes, Part 2
• Going Higher Fidelity
• Prototyping, Part 2
• Project Progress Presentations 1
• Project Progress Presentations 2
• Exploring Secondary User Stories & Features
• Exploring Secondary User Flows
• Wireframes, Part 3
• Prototyping, Part 3
• User Testing, Part 2
• Types of Development
• Portfolio Building
• Next Steps
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.
Ron Wilde is a user experience designer living in Brooklyn, NY. He founded gap'cork in 2009, a design company specializing in digital strategy, UX / UI, visual design and mobile.
Ron teaches user experience design at General Assembly, Noble Desktop, & the Zahn Innovation Center. He is an adjunct professor for the Interaction Design Masters Program at Harbour.Space University.
- AT&T
- Samsung
- Verizon
- Simon & Schuster
- Friends of The High Line
- Public Consulting Group
- PlayMada
- Kinetic
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Building a Product: From Inception to Prototype
by Ron Wilde
Total hours
45 Hours
Dates
May 22 - Jun 09, 2017
Fee for single course
€1500
Fee for degree students
€750
How to secure your spot
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Schedule your Harbour.Space interview
If successful, get ready to join us on campus
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?
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