“I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.” -Mia Hamm
<aside> 🌊 We've trained, tested and flown through our first two units. A space storm is ahead, plagued with gravity-defying beasts and Zoom crashes. Fortunate we've learned to trace lost signals to maintain the course toward product launch. Ho! Far ahead, it's rumored that the Mid-fi Space Kraken looms, with it's many tricky tentacles, and an innate ability to tempt its foe with polish and shine. Still one tool is favored, the Lightblade of Axure, as it holds the mighty power of limitless interaction. But beware, it is not for the faint at heart. We must split up and seek out the technologies of Axure. Steady crew, for the choppiest of travels are yet to come.
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In our third mission, you will work in teams to build a mid-fidelity web application. By the end of the project, you will have recruited test participants and applied user and business research methods to explore and validate the needs of a product to be built. Any of the concepts we've covered to date can be included, but we will focus largely on adding topics as you should be starting to explore them. By laying the groundwork for interaction design and information architecture, we're launching toward narrowing our focus on behavior and information. These must work in tandem to tackle a heaping problem: how will people use your application to meet their needs while still being practical enough to consider how to be a viable business endeavor. Act quickly and keep your designs light, but don't forget about the lessons learned from the past missions, as they are vital to success. Validate, validate, validate, and have some fun along the way. There's a gauntlet of ever-greater challenges ahead, rely on your team for mission success.
Recording of Kickoff
“It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.” -John Wooden
Propose a validated product that utilizes the fundamentals of UX, design thinking, usability and testing to:
This project is about building a robust, clickable mid-fidelity web application.
(Choose one of these to design around)