🌈 Product Classroom Weekly - 10/4
Welcome to Week 4, Product Classmates! 🐛
Hope you all learned a lot from last week’s content on finding meaningful problems to solve as a designer. We’ve seen together how important design is to influencing behaviors and practices we feel are common-place now. Truth is, most of our interactions with digital media were normalized through design. With luck, you all will take this knowledge with you and carry out your future designs with intention.
Last Week’s Recap:
Brainstorming and researching 5+ problems you want to explore.
🖌 This Week’s Assignments
We’ve brainstormed a bunch of problems, now we narrow down to one!
Once you have chosen a problem to focus on, create a list of interview questions for your target audience to better understand the problem. Create a plan for sourcing users to participate - you may want to start reaching out to schedule interviews as this can take some time to complete.
Deliverable: Post your chosen problem, interview questions, and plan/ideas for sourcing users on your Notion site. Be prepared to discuss these and ask for feedback in your next group meeting.
All directions for Week 4 can be found here. As always, if you’re lost, ask for help! We’re all here for you. ♥️
🌏 Events - Mark Your Calendars!
10/8: Guest Lecture - Practical User Research by Bhavik Singh, Previously PM @Google
To design successful products we need to deeply understand community needs. User research enables this at every stage of the product life cycle. In this workshop, we’ll look at ways you can practically conduct research right from the start with foundational research, through each stage of design, and even after launching a product.
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM EST Register Here
Guest Lecture - Interactive Screen Reader Introduction to Web Accessibility by Ruben Nic, Accessibility Engineer @ Webflow
Learning a Screen Reader is an excellent introduction to web accessibility and assistive technologies. Plus, it's mind-expanding to experience something you think you understand, a website, in a completely novel way. (This session is interactive, please bring a Windows or OS X computer with Chrome or Safari installed.)
TIME TBD Register Here
10/17: Movie Night - The Social Dilemma
We tweet, we like, and we share— but what are the consequences of our growing dependence on social media? This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.
8:00PM EST Register Here
✨ INSPO ✨
by Paolo Čerić
😛 Too Good To Not Repost
by Zoom Memes for Self Quaranteens
Questions or Comments?
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