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Continue reading →: Case Study: Designing WalletWize — A Gen Z Financial Literacy AppWe live in a world where many young people feel like that managing their money is overwhelming. Often, they ask themselves questions like, “How much money should I be saving?” “When should I start planning for retirement?” “What’s an index fund?” and it seems like everyone they ask has their…
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Continue reading →: Testing Time: Real Users, Real Feedback, Real GrowthIn phase 4 of our design sprint, we transitioned from building our prototype to testing it. After carefully building our app, WalletWize, it was finally time to put it in the hands of potential users. We wanted to watch them interact with the app and listen to their thoughts on…
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Continue reading →: Prototyping WalletWize: Turning Storyboards Into RealityThis week, my team and I entered phase 3 of our design sprint. Our mission was to transform our storyboard from Phase 2 into an interactive prototype that’s ready for user testing. With multiple meetings and plenty of team collaboration, we created a medium-fidelity, clickable prototype for WalletWize. Step 1:…
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Continue reading →: WalletWize: Designing with Purpose in Phase 2This week my team and I completed Phase 2 of our design sprint. Phase 2 is all about making decisions and finalizing a storyboard. Decision making during a design sprint can feel a little unnatural because there’s very little time to debate your choices. In Jake Knapp‘s book, Sprint: How…
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Continue reading →: Unlocking Insights: The Power of Expert Interviews in Design SprintsEvery phase of the design sprint is equally important, but the “Ask the Experts” activity, that Jake Knapp recommends doing on Monday afternoon, lays the foundation for innovative solutions. Without the experts’ knowledge, you won’t have a clear direction for your sprint. During this activity team members will engage in…
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Continue reading →: Sprint Into Action: A Beginner’s Guide to Preparing for Your First Google Design SprintStarting to prepare for your first Google Design Sprint can be both and exiting and overwhelming venture. Developed by Jake Knapp at Google Ventures, the Google Design Sprint is a five day process that helps businesses, large and small, solve critical problems through ideation, prototyping, and testing. Being fully prepared…
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Continue reading →: Design Sprints: Accelerating UI/UX the Google WayIn the fast paced world of digital product development, time is of the essence and it always seems like there’s not enough. Enter the Design Sprint, a five day process started in the 2010s by Jake Knapp at Google Ventures (GV). Design sprints were created to rapidly solve complex problems…
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Continue reading →: Prototyping MyPlymouth: Designing for Civic ConnectionI developed a mobile app prototype called MyPlymouth that is meant to connect residents and business owners of Plymouth, CT with their local government. This project took me through the steps of the design process from user scenarios to high-fidelity prototypes. This app is a real world simulation of how…
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Continue reading →: Testing With Paper Prototypes Means Early Feedback with Big ImpactBefore diving into high-fidelity designs and creating a polished interface, it’s important to stop for a moment and ask yourself, “Is this actually going to work with the users?”. That’s where usability testing with paper prototypes comes in. These simple designs on paper are more than just sketches. They’re a…
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Continue reading →: Prototyping with Paper: Building an App from the Ground UpThis week we dive into the world of paper prototyping – a fast and surprisingly effective method for visualizing user flows and interfaces without opening a design program. It takes all of the strategies that have been built so far – sitemaps, information architecture, and user flows – and begin…
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