UX Academy Product Design Tutor

2022

Overview

I’ve been tutor and mentor for the Academy online Product Design courses, planning the 12 weekly lessons led online. The course was addressed junior designers to enhance or transition their careers.

What I’ve done

1. Developed a thorough course framework in which each lesson is structured into two parts: theoretical instruction with links to online resources, and practical application;
2. At the end of each session, participants are assigned homework, which will be reviewed and discussed during the following lesson;
3. Prepared all course material, define lessons topics and activities;

Topics and activities

• How Business, technology and design interact
• Coaching on running a workshop to gather the business value proposition and impact on users

• Coaching on qual and quant user research methods and studies and select the appropriate according to product/project needs
• Planning and running the user research
• How to analyse the user research results. Analysis
• Personas definition and relevant experience maps

• Features prioritisation
• Lo-fi mock-ups
• Planning the user testing, objectives and methods.

Conclusions

The participant has been conducted through a typical complete Product Design process, from understanding businesses and their users/customers, defining tasks and features, conceptualise and sketching the digital product and finally test it.

This has enabled them to learn and directly play with the different tools and understand why a strategic approach could lead to the product success.