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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)
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Building Your Prototypes (complete prior to Wed, Jul 7 class session — where we'll test your prototypes)

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)

Analysis

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.