The first unit was intended to build the foundational knowledge of UX methodology, including design thinking, rapid prototyping and iteration. The unit covered a broad-range UX process, from ideation, research, sketching and prototyping. Having concluded this unit, you should be able to look back and understand the importance of being human-centered, identifying a problem, and facilitating design thinking toward the development of a prototype that demonstrates a solution.

Presentation Decks

Recordings

Frontier Walk-up Songs

Epic Mission: Trials of the Unicorn

Epic Mission I: Trials of the Space Unicorn in the Land of a Thousand Sketches

Facilitated design thinking and Lean

Built paper and clickable prototypes

Drafted user flows, wires and sketches

Practiced research, interviews and synthesis

Created a clickable prototype in Balsamiq

Shared feedback and pitching

Project Highlights

• Conducted a one-week Lean UX design sprint that resulted in 14 concepts, from five prompts, identifying a multitude of opportunities stemming from a range of shared, multi-faceted problems.
• Researched and designed for global challenges and relevant tech opportunities around helping marginalized groups, solving for the problem of the language gap, trust in open voice data, solving local challenges, and thinking about ways to create change around animal rights.

Empowering Marginalized Creatives, sponsored and provided by the teams at Adobe Creative Jam

Elevating Use of Voice Data, sponsored by Corona Diaries backed by the teams at GA, Harvard and MIT

Cutting through the Language Gap, inspired by the work championed in Pakistan by Doctory.pk

Quick Stats

• 99 peer form submissions providing peer feedback on presentations (that's 7 per person, some quick maths for you)
• Average scores rated were 4.65 for discovery, 4.6 for concept development, 4.5 for presentation
• Executed more than 95 user interviews on zoom, over the phone and in person
• Areas of strength, as reported were prototyping, sketching and user flows
• Areas of growth include cast studies, research, and interviewing

Recognition of Accomplishment

interviewed a total of 10 folks, the most of the person, which averaged 6 interviews per person

received a top score from peers in the area of discovery, identifying and articulating a problem

received a overall score of ## out of 5 from peers across all criteria reviewed

brought the collaborative spirit, bringing folks together over the past two weeks

With top score and recognition for engagement, ## led the charge for slaying the presentation

Recognized for lighting the way, ## was lauded for providing stellar feedback, (who also was top rated in concept development).