Topic: Prototyping

Shaping Behavior, By Design

What You’ll Learn

• Understand the whys and hows that drive behavior
• Discover the importance of engaging with users at the behavioral level
• Learn how to close the feedback loop on your designs; making, testing, iterating, and learning.
• Get prototyping options to observe and elicit behaviors

Motion In Design Systems: Animation, Style Guides, and the Design Process

What You’ll Learn

• Understand ways to improve communication around your interface animations
• Get available prototyping tools, and how to assess their pros and cons
• Learn how to articulate the goal or problem that your prototype addresses

Balancing Continuous Discovery and Delivery

What You’ll Learn

• Compare traditional design with contemporary design
• Manage multiple priorities at a time using dual-track development
• Be transparent in your process
• Involve the entire team in discovery work

How to Improve Your Product Design with Game Thinking

What You’ll Learn

• Create An Experience That Evolves Over Time
• Find The Fun In Your Core Loop
• Connect With Your Super Fans
• Build Your Roadmap With Game Thinking

Shaping Behavior, by Design

What You’ll Learn

• How to reframe the way you think about products and services in people’s lives
• Which interaction design principles support other “new age” products and services
• How to make the connection between behavior and design
• How to incorporate prototyping and “making” throughout the entire design process

Coding Prototypes, Even if You’ve Never Tried

What You’ll Learn

• The Why of jQuery Mobile
• The Accessibility of jQuery Mobile
• The Value of jQuery Mobile

Modern Layouts - Getting Out of Our Ruts

What You’ll Learn

• Look at web design today
• Examine layouts in print versus online
• Learn about emerging web technologies that can make your layouts fresh and creative
• Decide the best way to implement a new layout

Content Modelling: Creating Responsive Content Experiences

What You’ll Learn

• Set up a framework for success
• Establish content types
• Prioritize content chunks
• Sketch the content model

Cohesive Design Systems for Enterprise

What You’ll Learn

• Inspire designers to unite and share their work
• Unify your design community within your organization
• Illustrate how products relate & work together

Designing for Startups

Most startup designers focus on delighting customers with how their products look and feel. But if a product isn’t solving a problem or meeting a need, customers won’t care how pretty it is. So, how can design be used to help shape the core of products? And how can designers convince their teams to let them go beyond visual design?

Braden Kowitz will share his insights into what startups really need from designers, as well as his team’s “Design Sprint” process for rapid prototyping. You’ll learn how user research lets you move faster and take more risks. How to work at the right level of fidelity. And how ugly things can lead to great design.

Lean Roadmapping: Where Product Management & UX Meet

What You’ll Learn

• Focus on what matters
• Validate ideas with prototypes
• Use findings to guide your roadmap

Choosing the Right Wireframe Strategy for Your Project

What You’ll Learn

• Drive design and communication by using wireframes
• Plan projects by defining unique page types
• Build scenarios with states and layers
• Learn to draw "just enough"

Prototypes: Choosing the “Right” Fidelity for Your Research

What You’ll Learn

• Start with your research questions
• Identify the 5 main dimensions of a prototype
• Choose the level of fidelity you need
• Use your prototypes to divide and conquer

Fearless Prototyping for Skeptics

What You’ll Learn

• Sketch conscientiously
• Get to code quicker
• Use paired programming
• Create modular designs

Prototyping a Responsive Design

What You’ll Learn

• Create working prototypes for multiple screens
• Show the client what they are getting and how it will work
• Reduce misfires between design and development
• Make prototyping a part of the design process

Start Full Screen: Organize, Communicate, & Annotate HTML Prototypes

What You’ll Learn

• Build HTML prototypes and organize them systematically
• Break designs into small, reusable components
• Use an HTML prototype to communicate an entire experience
• Annotate and collaborate using basic markup

From PDFs to HTML Prototypes

What You’ll Learn

• Understand how and when HTML prototypes can fit into your design process
• Honestly assess your front-end coding skills and how you can progressively enrich your capabilities to make valuable contributions
• Recognize what you really need to prototype, balance it against other artifacts you’re creating, and identify when you’re spinning out of control
• Understand why in most successful projects, it’s not about the skills or deliverable, but about the process and collaboration with your teammates and stakeholders

A Practitioner's Guide to Prototyping

What You’ll Learn

• Confidently use prototyping to gather feedback while you are still planning and designing your product.
• Understand that the value of the prototype shows up in the act of building it.
• Identify what the next steps are in working effective prototyping into a larger design process—waterfall or agile.

Paper Prototyping: Streamlining the User-Centered Design Process

What You’ll Learn

• The importance of early feedback in the design process
• How to create a paper prototype and who should be involved in the creation process
• When it is most beneficial for your design team to use paper prototyping and what kinds of interfaces can be prototyped
• When images help and when they get in the way
• How paper prototyping is related to usability testing and what paper prototyping will and will not find when conducting a usability test
• How to facilitate a paper prototype usability test, from room set-up to reporting test results