Resources 3607

Key Resources

Textbook

• Required: Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans 978-1101875322

• d.school 5 Stage Framework

  • Design Thinking d.school page

• Design for Delight (D4D) Framework

  • Design Thinking D4D page

Designing Your Life

• Mind-sets

  • Be Curious

  • Try Stuff (Bias to Action)

  • Reframe Problems

  • Know It's a Process (Awareness)

  • Ask for Help (Radical Collaboration)

Additional Resources

• Google UX Design Professional Certificate Coursera (you can pay $49/mo. and earn a certificate or audit the course for free) 

  • Course 1 Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design (19 hours | 3 weeks) 

    1. Introducing user experience design (6 hours)

    2. Thinking like a UX designer (2 hours)

    3. Joining design sprints (5 hours)

    4. Integrating research into the design process (4 hours)

  • Course 2 Start the UX Design Process: Empathize, Define, and Ideate (21 hours | 3 weeks)

    1. Empathizing with users and defining pain points (8 hours)

    2. Creating user stories and user journey maps (3 hours)

    3. Defining user problems (3 hours)

    4. Ideating design solutions (6 hours)

  • Course 3 Build Wireframes and Low-Fidelity Prototypes (17 hours | 3 weeks)

    1. Storyboarding and wireframing (5 hours)

    2. Creating paper and digital wireframes (5 hours)

    3. Building low-fidelity prototypes (7 hours)

  • Course 4 Conduct UX Research and Test Early Concepts (20 hours | 3 weeks)

    1. Planning UX research studies (7 hours)

    2. Conducting research with usability studies (5 hours)

    3. Analyzing and synthesizing research results (3 hours)

    4. Sharing research insights for better designs (4 hours)

• LUMA Institute

• BuildU

• IBM Skills Academy

• FGCU Lib Guides 

  • Entrepreneurship and Venture Creation

  • Sustainability

Innovation Resources

Canvases

Problem Statement Canvas 

• No solution zone

• Text template
  When (context) occurs,
  (customer type) who has (characteristic) and (characteristic),
  have (problem).
  Because of this, they feel (emotion), then experience (quantifiable impact).
  Currently, they use (alternative solutions)
  despite (disadvantages).

• Problem Statement Canvas visual format (xlsx)

Lean Launch Canvas

• Lean Launch Canvas Overview presentation 

• Lean Launch Canvas document

Value Proposition Canvas

• The Value Proposition Canvas introduction and video

• The Value Proposition Canvas template (save blank to OneDrive)

• "The Value Proposition Canvas - Instruction Manual"

Prototype Canvas

Lean Canvas

Business Model Canvas

Emotionally Intelligent Design Resources

• Norman's Three Levels of Design: Visceral, Behavioral, Reflective

• Maslow's hierarchy: Physiological, Safety, Love and belonging, Esteem, Self-actualization

• 4 Types of Pleasure: Physio-pleasure (Sensory), Psycho-pleasure (Cognitive), Socio-pleasure (Relational), Ideo-pleasure (Ideas)

• 4 C's: Conciliatory, Curious, Caring, Celebratory 

• Hygge

• Happify's STAGER model: Savor, Thank, Aspire, Give, Empathize, and Revive

• Principles of Calm Technology