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

• Slides on empathy-driven design (EDD)
• Intro to design thinking.
• Mixtapes: Understand, Ideate, Experiment
• The Gift Giving experience (video, material), fill in the Participant form
• Fill out the Gift Giving Debrief Form
• Rapid prototyping with one among invisionapp, moqups.com, balsamiq.
• Business creation slides
• Personas template: https://app.xtensio.com
• Other examples of how to model personas

COMPITO: Prenotazione pasti ++

• vedi files pasti1 e pasti 2, mettete in pratica i principi di EDD per innovare la prenotazione dei pasti
• Mockup URL submission, scadenza Giovedì 4 Ottobre 2018

slides

EDD (Empathy Driven Design)

Business Creation

Useful additional material

• Creative confidence, by IDEO.
• The Psychology Of Everyday Things, Don Norman.
• Interesting event in Trento: UX Challenge 2018.
• 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. Here.
• Example of engineer-driven design from the big bang theory.
• Example of empathy-driven design: the IDEO shopping cart (1999), MuseumChallenge.
• More on the IDEO design process from cbs.
• Other prototyping tools: frontify.com (great also for practicing your css and js skills), flinto.com, proto.io and many others.
• The business model canvas, with a template and example.
• Follow the Udacity course on building startups.
• GREAT book, fun, easy: Gear up!

Sample exam questions

on proprofs.