2 Ideas to Prototype

• Idea 1: Offering an virtual class covering the elements of private practice development. This can be developed with real-life MFT private practice instructors via online forum. It can also take the model pioneered by Coursera. Marketing, Database Security, Forecasting, Time management, among other topics will be covered.

• Idea 2: Develop free introductory workshops with an option to attend other, more specific topics which have to be paid for if chosen. MFT’s already have to attend a specific amount of workshops to complete the internship period before licensure. This would just specify a business practice element that can count as internship hours.

Prototype 1: Online Course

Prototype 2: Workshop

Prototype Testing

• Who was involved in the testing? The person I interviewed and defined the problem statement for.

• How was the testing performed? I walked through the format of each prototype idea. With the website prototype for example, we role-played with her being the type of stakeholder we were targeting, and she gave feedback. We did the same for the workshop prototype.

Prototype Testing Feedback

• Online Course Prototype-the prototype is a good rendition of what an online course would be. The topics make sense. The layout is clean. Obviously it is a static, visual representation, but if he hyperlinks and the interface actually worked, it would probably garner attention. The video content delivery probably makes sense in in addition to text and graphic representations. There are some existing resources on the web now that take a similar approach to this particular approach.

Prototype Testing Feedback

• Workshop Prototype-the format for the workshop, after getting feedback, is fairly reasonable for a quick course on how to run a private practice. Although it covers critical elements relevant to a successful business in mental health, it might be covering too much information just for a day’s worth of info.