Product Design Course Outline
I'm currently offering an light and intensive product design course in private tutoring/mentoring sessions. Please reach out if you are interested:
Meet & Greet
Casual 1 hour coffee/video/phone meet and greet.
Week 1
101 Introduction
Introduction to Product Design
- What is Product Design?
- What is the difference between UX, UI, UX/UI, Interaction, Visual, Product, User Research, Product Manager, Product (Digital & Physical), Prototype designer?
User Experience
- What is 'User Experience' and why is it important?
- In what ways is User Experience important to Product Design?
- What are some examples? What are some patterns?
Design Roles and Responsibilities in a Large Company
- What are the different roles, responsibilities, and expectations?
- What are you measured on? What does success look like?
- How to make an impact internally and in the community?
102 Finding Passion & Purpose
Finding Passion
- Identifying personal goals & finding a skill focus
- Identifying your strengths & areas of growth
- Exploring career goals and trajectory
- What can you do everyday with passion and without fear of failure?
- Identifying your purpose
Strength Focus
- How to showcase your strengths
- Building a bridge of all your skills and experience
- Tying it back to your purpose
Week 2 & 3
103 Design Sprint
Design Sprint
- Product Strategy
- Identifying market and/or business need
- Differentiators
- Key features
- Business goals
- Finding a problem
- Setting goals
- Design principles
- Information gathering
- Competitive analysis & audit
- Pattern audit
- Gathering current and past perceptions
- Gathering feedback
- Case studies and reverse-engineering
- User interviews
- Observational sessions
- Surveys
- Ideation
- Holistic thinking
- Finding and gathering inspiration
- Idea brain dumps
- Organizing your ideas
- Refining your ideas
- Setting future vision
- Writing a Hypothesis/Hypothese
- Validating your idea
- Considering outliers (accessibility and inclusion)
- Gathering data
- Setting key metrics
- Observing signals
- Documentation
- Designing user tests
- Triaging work
- Prototyping
- Design & prototyping tools
- Methods
- Scaling
- Iteration and Refinement
- Design systems
- Platforms
- Accessibility
- Creating frameworks
- Alignment
- Gaining Traction Internally
- Building a story
- Sharing out
- Getting feedback
- Finding allies
- Refining your idea
- Cross-Collaboration
- Working cross-functionally
- Working with other designers
- Packaging and handing off work
- Dealing with conflict
- Ambiguity & non-linear processes
- How to deal with ambiguity or lack of time/resources
- Streamlining your process
- MVP (launching with lowest amount of work, highest potential impact, gaining the most amount of key feedback)
Week 4
104 Portfolio Building
Portfolio Building
- Personal branding
- Showcasing work
- Choosing projects
- Gathering assets and supporting research
- Creating new supporting material
- Building a story
- Keeping competitive
- Presentation skills
Resume
- Writing your resume
- Conveying intent, emotion & personality
- Extending your personal brand into your resume
- Telling your story through your experience
- Balancing technical skills, work history, goals and you as a person on one page
- 30 second test
Week 5
105 Prepping for Interviews
Interviewing
- Choosing projects 1-3
- Formatting presentations
- About you
- Presentation (Portfolio Review)
- 1:1's
- Abstract questioning
- Presentation skills
- White boarding sessions
- Asking about the role and cultural fit
- Negotiations
- Managing offers
- Moving forward from rejetion
Tuition: $60/hr
Intensive: $300/5 classes
Time: 2 hrs per class
Classe schedule: 1 class per week (Saturdays)
Syllabus: Custom per person
Project: 1 end-to-end project showcase