practical prototyping for somejam 2015 innovation camp

PRACTICAL PROTOTYPING

HOW TO TALK ABOUT YOUR IDEA!

• Researcher, doctoral student • Department of Computer Science

• New product development, crowdsourcing

• Software systems engineering • Lean/agile methods in practice

/WHOIS HANNA ?

• Hostess at a green ICT lab on the rooftop of Exactum building in Kumpula.

This illustration is by Paragon Innovations, 2005 - Original idea of the tree swing is from Total Quality Management, Oakland, 1989.

How the client described it

How it was understood.

How the team implemented it. What it was!

WHY IS IT SO HARD TO TALK ABOUT ANYTHING SOFTWARE?

TOOLS

Presentation is uploaded to Slack.

HOW TO TALK ABOUT YOUR IDEA!

METAPHORS - TALK!

• Portable silence?

• ”Path home from here” app?

• Mind control wristlet

START WITH THE PEOPLE• Who are they?

• What is their typical day like?

• What are they motivated by?

• Goals in life

Persona template.You can make up your own or use www.romanpichler.com

Sanda from Burma

HOW CAN YOU HELP?

• Problems to solve

• Aspirations

• Dreams to fullfill

This technique is called Impact Mapping. The method is helpful for prioritizing ideas and choosing the most important features of your product / service. It is by Gojko Adzic. impactmapping.org

WOW!

…BUT HOW DOES IT WORK?

The sequence diagram is an Agile Modeling tool. It is an old method for visualizing workflows. It helps you understand what your solution should do and how do people behave around it.

Popularized by Scott Ambler.

SKETCH, DRAW, TALK

Above image is by Iain McDonald from chiefdisruptionofficer.com The website has good videos on prototyping.

http://bit.ly/be-silly-and-brave MOCK UP APP Balsamiq, fluidUI

WHAT IS A PROTOTYPE?METAPHOR

DRAWING”PAPER PROTOTYPE”

VIDEODIAGRAM

SOFTWAREMOCK UP APP

TALK - SKETCH - TEST!

BE A LITTLE SILLY

Isabelle Olsson - Senior Lead Designer at Google

THE FUTURE IS AWESOME

THANK YOU