The Design Process

The class explores a variety of different shoe designs to consider design choices. Building on this, you will explore the relationship between users, their needs, and the design of objects they use.

Using user profiles, you will explore how different users might react to a variety of products. Role playing as a different person, each member of the class will get to experience designs through someone else's eyes.

In small groups, you will use the design process to come up with ideas for smart clothing. From brainstorming, to identifying users, to finally proposing a design - this activity serves as the first of several opportunities for you to practice designing a solution for the needs of others. Today's lesson focuses on brainstorming users and ideas that will meet their needs.

In small groups, you will use the design process to come up with ideas for smart clothing. From brainstorming, to identifying users, to finally proposing a design - this activity serves as the first of several opportunities for you to practice designing a solution for the needs of others. Today's lesson focuses on creating your design and reflecting on how well it meets the needs of your users.

In this lesson, you get to see how a paper prototype can be used to test and get feedback before writing any code. To help out a developer with their idea, the class tests and provides feedback on an app prototype made of paper.

Users have been testing an app, and they have lots of feedback for the developer. The class needs to sort through all of this feedback, identify the common themes and needs, and start revising the prototype to make it better meet the users' needs.

In this lesson, we begin thinking about designing our own paper prototype for an app that can solve a problem in our community. Using interviews from different users, you will identify needs and interests that you can use to design an app for these people in your community.

To kick off the app design project, the class organizes into teams and starts exploring app topics. Several examples of socially impactful apps serve as inspiration for the project.

In your teams, you will create your paper prototype for the app you've been developing. Each team member will create a different screen and design how the user will navigate between each screen.

In this lesson, teams test out their paper prototypes with other members of the class. As one student role plays as the computer, one narrates, and the rest observe, teams will get immediate feedback on their app designs, which will inform the next version of your app prototypes.