Wireframe Your Product’s User Experience

Designing for the Right Customer

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Welcome to Unit 1 of class! We'll cover what it means to be designing for the right customer. Here are the resources I curated to get us started:

Share Customer Problem Hypotheses and learnings (#1, #3 and #4)

Let's do the following to get started on our project:
Let's do the following to get started on our project:
1. Make Personal Copy and fill out Problem and
2. Customer Hypothesis on the Validation Board
3. Interview at least 7 potential customers
4. Answer: Is your customer who you thought they were? Did they have the problem?
5. List the 5 key learnings from interviews
6. If you need, Persona Development Template
7. MILESTONE ONE: Share #1, #3 and #4

Storyboard Your User’s Experience

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This Unit we'll move into storyboarding your user experience. Design for the persona you arrived at in the last unit. Here are the resources I curated for this unit:
- Read Designing the Damn Thing
- Read The Value of the Minimum Viable Product
- Read Creating Your Own Storyboard
- Read Wireframe Mockups: You Can Do This Right Now

Share a storyboard of your user’s journey

For this unit's milestone:
For this unit's milestone:
1. Update Validation board with learnings and/or pivot
2. Define Solution Hypothesis
3. Answer this question: What goal is your user trying to accomplish?
4. Storyboard the user journey of that 1 main feature (4-6 frames)
5. MILESTONE TWO: Share the goal and Storyboard

Wireframing and User Testing

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This unit we'll wrap up class diving into wireframing and user testing. Here are the resources I curated to learn about both:
- Read Leancamp Berlin - Lean UX Session
- Watch Feynman Chaser - The Key to Science
- Read and watch (video at bottom) The Science Behind UX

Share your wireframes

Final milestone time! To finish up your project:
Final milestone time! To finish up your project:
1. Update Validation Board with new experiment
2. Conduct user tests with 5 target customers to test storyboard and wireframe (your goal is to learn, not prove!)
FINAL MILESTONE: Share your wireframe and user testing results (Balsamiq is a great tool with a 1-month free trial)

Carla Vazquez

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