Design Kit: Prototyping

Design Kit: Prototyping Course

(New course starting 2016)

We are forming an online team to take this course: Join our team.

Course Description: This four-week course builds on Design Kit: The Course for Human-Centered Design, a class that has been taken by thousands of teams around the world. The curriculum will strengthen your existing knowledge of the human-centered design process and help you to become a more innovative problem solver by building up your prototyping skills. You'll walk away knowing how to prototype products, services, and environments, and get constructive feedback along the way.

We will develop the Empathy Circle as a prototype.

To join the team,

I’ve done the design kit course several times, but never prototype one. So I don’t know what to expect. It might be more of a challenge doing this online, but we shall see.

Our Teams Are

Videos About:

We meet Using Google Hangouts On Air

Recording: The workshop is video recorded and place publicly on YouTube for educational, Transcription and promotional purposes.

We will use the Mural.ly online collaboration platform. Sign up for a Mural.ly account.

What will you learn in this course?

  • Learn how to build and test prototypes out of ideas using the human-centered design process.

    • Strengthen your existing knowledge of the human-centered design process

    • Become a more innovative problem solver by building up your prototyping skills.

  • Take a deep dive into the nature and experience of empathy and learn about it and get better at it.

  • Learn to use the Mural.ly online brainstorming, synthesis and collaboration platform.

Course Outline

Class 0 Before You Start Guide.pdf

Class 0 Course Roadmap.pdf

CLASS 1: MAKE IT REAL

Focus: Overview/Tangible Products

Class 1 Readings.pdf

Class 1 Workshop Guide.pdf

CLASS 2: BUILD TO THINK

Focus: Services/Interactions

Class 2 Readings.pdf

Class 2 Workshop Guide.pdf

CLASS 3: PLAN FOR FIELD TESTS

Focus: Environments/Planning for Context

Class 3 Readings.pdf

Class 3 Workshop Guide.pdf

CLASS 4: IN THE FIELD

Focus: Field-Testing/Real User Feedback

Class 4 Readings.pdf

Class 4 Workshop Guide.pdf

more to come.