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Rapid Prototyping

Approx. 3 weeks

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Brief Introduction

Prototyping is an art that exists to save you time and money in the app development process. It allows you to identify design flaws quickly so you waste as little time as possible building a phenomenal app. By learning this art, you’ll create quality apps faster and have confidence in the viability of your products. By the end of the course, you’ll be comfortable with the prototyping process, be able to get quality user feedback, and use the feedback to create great apps.

Course Summary

Learn the fundamentals of rapid prototyping and how to turn your ideas into tangible products quickly with this course. You'll learn how to create prototypes using various tools and techniques, and how to iterate and refine your designs to create a successful product.

Key Learning Points

Understand the importance of rapid prototyping in product development
Learn how to use a variety of tools and techniques for rapid prototyping
Discover how to iterate and refine your designs to create successful products

Learning Outcomes

Create functional prototypes using various tools and techniques
Iterate and refine designs to create successful products
Understand the importance of rapid prototyping in product development

Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course

Basic understanding of product design principles
Familiarity with design software such as Sketch or Adobe XD

Course Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Course Format

Self-paced online course
Video lectures and demonstrations
Hands-on projects and exercises

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CEO of IDEO
Director of the Design Lab at UC San Diego

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Description

Learning to prototype will save you time and money in the development process. You’ll create quality apps faster and have confidence in the viability of your products.

Requirements

This course has no formal prerequisites, but you will get a lot more out of the instruction and exercises if you’ve got a product idea. If you’ve completed our Product Design course, you can leverage your app mockups from that course to get a headstart in this one! See the Technology Requirements for using Udacity.

Knowledge

Instructor videosLearn by doing exercisesTaught by industry professionals

Outline

lesson 1 Low-Fidelity Prototypes & User Research Learn the fundamentals of prototyping. How to make paper prototypes and present them to users. lesson 2 Medium-Fidelity Prototypes with inVision Learn how to incorporate feedback. Make interactive prototypes using InVision. How to conduct further user research remotely. lesson 3 Lifelong Prototyping Learn how to refine your prototypes further. How to involve prototyping and user research in new app features. How to present your prototypes and research.

Summary of User Reviews

Discover how to quickly build prototypes with Udacity's Rapid Prototyping course. Students praise the course for its hands-on approach to learning and engaging instructors who provide feedback and guidance throughout the process. However, some users feel the course could benefit from more advanced topics and greater depth of instruction.

Key Aspect Users Liked About This Course

Hands-on approach to learning

Pros from User Reviews

Engaging instructors who provide feedback and guidance
Opportunities to work on real-world projects
Course materials are up-to-date and relevant

Cons from User Reviews

Course could benefit from more advanced topics
Greater depth of instruction would be helpful
Some users feel the course is too basic for their needs

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