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Term 1, Class 19

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Design Sprint: Revised Solutions/Prototypes

Learning Objectives

• Get feedback on your revised solutions

Pre-Class Assignment

• Update your presentation from last time. Read carefully below, as some of the requirements have changed! But, “hide” the skipped slides rather than removing them, because you may need them for a later presentation. Be prepared to present this to the class.

1. Title
   • Team name
   • Logo or wordmark (optional)
   • Tagline: 1-3 sentences describing what the team does and why audience should care
2. Team members
   • Names, photos, year/major, roles on team
   • Ideally, photos should either have a fairly consistent look & feel (such as coordinating and taking photos specifically for this purpose, with similar backgrounds, angles, etc). Each face should be recognizable and lighting/image quality should be good.
3. Persona
   • The persona of your target user/beneficiary
4. Proposed solution 1
   • Your first proposed solution, from last class
5. Proposed solution 2
   • Your revised proposed solution, based on feedback from last class
6. Value Proposition Canvas
   • Showing the problem-solution fit in terms of customer jobs, pains, and gains, and how these align with solution pain relievers and gain creators. The format of this is flexible, as long as the information from the VPC template is there.
7. Proposed Prototype
   • Your low-fidelity prototype.
   • The questions you want to answer with your prototype, and your hypotheses concerning the outcomes.
   • How you will develop and test the prototype
8. Conclusions & Next Steps
   • How the results of testing your prototype inform your thinking about next steps. Regardless of whether your team actually has any inclination to move forward with the project, discuss next steps if you or another team were to continue. If your testing revealed that you really needed to go back to the drawing board and rethink a lot of things, that is a valuable lesson and a sound decision. In other words, don’t feel you have to “sell” something that you’ve found holes in. What we’re looking for is how you apply what you’ve learned so far in the class to make “next step” decisions.
9. A clear ending
   • Some sort of conclusion/thank you slide to make it clear to the audience when you’re done.

Class Outline

• Presentations (10 min/team)