Homework

HOMEWORK

Homework 1: Product Write-up (DUE SEPTEMBER 12)

Assignment Description:

Your Role: Product Designer

The Scenario: You are creative, you have ideas. You see the work around you and you know that it can be better. Maybe you can help people study for a test better. Or perhaps you have an idea to help make everyone more efficient in their event planning. Whatever the idea, this is your chance to showcase it.
Your task is to come up with the concept, the series of ideas that will form the basis of a mobile device app. Your concept can be an app for either Android, IOS or both.

The Deliverables:

  • Create a Google Doc with the following:
  • Working Title for APP (it will probably change)
  • 2-3 Paragraph description on the app.
  • Who do you think will want to use this app?
  • How will profit be generated by this app?

This project is considered handed in when you share the doc with me @ thepixelsmith@gmail.com
*When sharing set my acces to Comment

Homework 1B: Initial User Research(DUE DATE: Oct. 3)

Assignment Description:

Who are your target users? What do they like to do? What are they like? How do they tend to behave?
Be prepared to present in class your initial observations about your potential users/customers for the app  are working on as well as the initial insights into your potential competitors.

Your Role: UX Designer

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Homework 2: Customer Journey Map(DUE DATE)

Assignment Description:

Your Role: UX Designer

Based on the lecture from class create a customer journey map demonstrating how one of the scenarios you created previously would play out in practice. As covered in the class lecture, a Customer Journey Map is a high-level diagram of how a user interacts with a product or service. For the purposes of this initial journey map you should focus most of your attention on the journey model, breaking it down into phases, and mapping the user journey from first opening your app to completing the task you payed out for them to accomplish in your previous scenario.

 

Homework 4: Mood Board(Nov. 21)

Assignment Description:

Your Role: UX Designer

Create a MoodBoard to demonstrate the visual inspiration for your project.
https://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design/mood-boards-812470

Homework 5: Style Tile (Nov. 21)

Assignment Description:

Your Role: UX Designer

Create a Style Tile to demonstrate how the iconography, type treatment and other visual elements of your UI design will be implemented.
http://styletil.es/

Homework 6: Start your Wireframes (Nov. 21)

Assignment Description:

Your Role: UX Designer

Start sketching up your wireframes so we can test them in class.