UX Design: Capstone Project

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RED Academy Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Jason Keen
Lead Instructor
3
Timeline
  • September 4, 2017
    Experience start
  • September 19, 2017
    Project Scope Meeting
  • September 21, 2017
    Experience end
Experience
1 projects wanted
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Any company type
Any industries

Experience scope

Categories
Product or service launch
Skills
consumer testing design thinking interface design ux design
Learner goals and capabilities

This assignment involves the full User Experience Design process. Researching, wire framing, design, and testing, producing a mid to high fidelity prototype for a website or app.

Learners

Learners
Any level
30 learners
Project
70 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Teams of 3
Expected outcomes and deliverables

  • 30 minute presentation on their findings and recommendations
  • Case study report
  • Mid to high fidelity prototype
Project timeline
  • September 4, 2017
    Experience start
  • September 19, 2017
    Project Scope Meeting
  • September 21, 2017
    Experience end

Project examples

Professional students will endeavour to understand the company's business goals, conduct research and consumer surveying to best understand the needs of the target audience and from this create a website or app layout and design that achieves those goals. The students will:

  • Conduct an in person kickoff meeting with the client
  • Interview users so we can design a specific solution for them
  • Conduct user testing
  • Apply design thinking practices and methodologies
  • Create a mid to high fidelity prototype

  • Optimizing a specific part of an existing product
  • Creating a project from scratch
  • Update and refresh an existing website or app
  • Content (Copy) needed prior to project kickoff

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

  • Q1 - Checkbox
  • Q2 - Checkbox
  • Q3 - Checkbox
  • Q4 - Checkbox