Product Design (Udacity)

Learn product validation, UI/UX practices, Google’s Design Sprint and the process for setting and tracking actionable metrics.

Syllabus

Lesson 1

Ideation & Validation

- Develop, validate and refine your ideas to build for a product/market fit.

- Case studies and interviews with founders, product experts, and investors.

- Learn how to efficiently conduct user research and build an entrepreneurial mindset.

Lesson 2

UI/UX

- Go beyond visual style to understand material design, building for accessibility, user flows and personas.

- Learn about how startups make design decisions and learn from senior designers at Google.

- Analyze the user experience of another product and start documenting a user flow for your own product.

Lesson 3

Design Sprint

- Created by Google Ventures, the Design Sprint Process is widely used by teams seeking to design, prototype, and test their ideas with customers.

- Google’s leading Design Sprint Master will help you go through all the steps required to validate your ideas and build mockups of your product.

- Get a first-hand look at how design sprints happen at Udacity and how you can design & conduct your own.

Lesson 4

Key Metrics

- Learn to identify common metrics for websites and apps relating to traffic, customer satisfaction, and engagement.

- Learn tools that can be used to monitor metrics and examples from startups on what metrics not to measure.

- Identify actionable metrics that will work best for your own product.