Typically, clients and managers don't want to pay for design (or strategy) -- they want ‘results’! Too often, this leads to solutions that just don’t make sense and aren’t valuable to anyone. Design sprints allow you to meet client's desire for quick, specific outcomes while making time to do things right. In this course, we'll show you how to plan and run situation-appropriate sprints to avoid waste and deliver value sooner. You'll explore how to do this across customer discovery, testing with Learn Startup, usability testing, and product architecture. As a Project Management Institute (PMI®) Registered Education Provider, the University of Virginia Darden School of Business has been approved by PMI to issue 25 professional development units (PDUs) for this course, which focuses on core competencies recognized by PMI. (Provider #2122) This course is supported by the Batten Institute at UVA’s Darden School of Business. The Batten Institute’s mission is to improve the world through entrepreneurship and innovation: www.batteninstitute.org.
Running Day 5 of the Usability Sprint
Skills You'll Learn
Usability Testing, Agile Software Development, Design Thinking, Design Sprint, Lean Startup
Reviews
JM
Oct 21, 2016
If the lecture may speak a little bit slowly than he has, it will be much better. The content is very useful. And the questions at end of each session are very helpful for me to recap the course.
M
Jan 18, 2020
Alex has made a extremely practical and useful course to use in my projects using Agile methodology to run sprints and deliver value to clients. I recommend the course to all SMEs in IT.
The paradox of good usability is that while it's simple for the user, getting to that level of simplicity is somewhat complex. In this module, you'll learn how to focus your usability objectives, identify interface patterns, and test alternative interface patterns- all without having to develop software. Naturally, we'll encapsulate this in a nice, tidy 1-week design sprint.
Taught By
Alex Cowan
Faculty & Batten Fellow