What to Have Done Before Our Next Class Session > Wednesday, July 7
Date
June 30, 2021 → July 7, 2021
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During our last class session, your team started using the essential features listed in your team's MVP to begin designing the actual details of your product.
This week - we'll begin the Testing phase of the design thinking process. You'll think explicitly about how to create a prototype of your product — something that you scan share with other users to give them a true sense of what the actual product will be — so, you can test the features of your proposed product and get feedback about how to make it even better.
You'll share your first prototypes with other design teams and begin testing its features during our Wed, Jul 7 class session.
Prototyping
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Planning Your Prototyping Strategy
(we'll start this during our class session on Wed, Jun 30 and you'll continue working on your first prototypes thru Wed, Jul 7)
Continue developing and evolving your prototyping strategy to test the features of your product idea throughout the week.
Be sure to use the Our Prototyping Strategy page in your team's design journal to record your process.
Building Your Prototypes
(complete prior to Wed, Jul 7 class session — where we'll test your prototypes)
Create your first prototypes of your product idea to share with other teams and being testing its features during our Wed, Jul 7 class session.
Remember — in this class, your journey is as important as the endpoint. So, be sure to record your using the Prototype In-Progress Sketches & Images page in your team's design journal.
Don't worry if your team decides to pivot and adapt your design ideas — changing your POV or MVP, adding new features to meet needs that you've discovered, or dropping others. That's all part of the design thinking process. If you do decide to evolve your idea, there's no need to go back and revise the earlier design journal pages. Focus your attention on what's ahead (looking thru the windshield) rather than looking back (in the rear view mirror).
Testing
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Developing Your Testing Plan
(we'll begin this during our class session on Wed, Jun 30,
and you'll submit it by Mon, Jul 5)
Be sure to start documenting your team's testing plan and submit a first draft by the end of Mon, Jul 5 on the Our Testing Plan page of your team's design journal.
Then, have your team's testing protocol written up on the Our Testing Protocol / Script for the Testing Sessions page in your design journal, so you can use it in class on Wed, Jul 7.
Reverse-Engineering a Product's MVP & Ideating Alternatives(Every student should prepare a brief analysis and submit it by Mon, Jul 5. This is an INDIVIDUAL assignment.)
Good designers are always looking at things in the world around them and trying to imagine what was the design thinking that went into the finished product. This is your chance to start honing your analysis skills and develop that habit.
Think about a product that you find useful, and try to put yourself into the designer's mindset -- what were the features of the Minimum Viable Product that the designer used as a guide in designing it:
Why did some features make it into the final product?
Why were other potential features omitted?
Please share your creative thinking by:
Creating a list of 3 or 4 essential features that the product had to provide.
Applying your creativity and ingenuity to propose another way that the essential functionality could have been provided.
Please share your analysis by creating a new entry on the Assignment Discussion page in Canvas.