Application Design

This part of the class shows how to approach the design of a software application starting from developing empathy with our users, and following that up with a design thinking approach.

Reading material - required for exam (SOLO per studenti non frequentanti)

• Intro : https://www.tutorialspoint.com/design_thinking/design_thinking_tutorial.pdf
• and some more Intro to design thinking.
• Mixtapes: Understand, Ideate, Experiment (see the links to the mixtapes on the right part of the page)

Useful additional material - required for your life

• Creative confidence, by IDEO.
• Resonate, a fantastic book on how to prepare talks
• Presentation zen design, another great book on how to make your presentation elegant and compelling
• People buy why you do things, not what you do. TED talk, very easy and pleasant listening.
• The puzzle of motivation. Another TED talk. Informative and fun.
• Body language. Fascinating. Here.
• Example of engineer-driven design from the big bang theory.
• Example of empathy-driven design: the IDEO shopping cart (1999).
• More on the IDEO design process from cbs.
• Follow the Udacity course on building startups.
• GREAT book, fun, easy: Gear up!
• Other prototyping tools: frontify.com (great also for practicing your css and js skills), flinto.com, proto.io and many others
• Personas template: https://app.xtensio.com
• Other examples of how to model personas.
• The business model canvas, with a template and example
• The Gift Giving experience (video, material)

Sample exam questions

on proprofs.

Stay happy and read this

• Quotes from Bush