Soft-Prototyping
This tutorial is cancelled. We apologise for the inconvenience.
Aim and Content
The Tutorial will address:
• Concept of prototype, different perspectives
• What is Soft Prototyping?
• Why one should create prototypes?
• What roles prototypes play in practice?
• Kind of prototypes
• Methods, tools and techniques of soft prototypes
• Aligning Soft Prototyping activity to various stakeholder needs
• Soft Prototyping – Advantages and challenges
What the tutorial will not address: How to use a specific prototyping
tool/software.
The tutorial is based on the material and approach used by the instructor
in IDC for the M.Des. course of the same nature.
The method would be: Knowledge sharing, interactive discussions drawing
on participants’ real life experience, and experiential learning.
Who should attend?
UX Practitioners.
Participants should bring their laptops and any prototyping software
they may possess. It would be helpful if your mobiles have cameras and
Bluetooth. None of these items are mandatory. The learning will not be
hampered in any manner if you do not bring them!
A short biography of the tutor
Pramod Khambete is a B. Tech and M. Des. From IIT Bombay, and
also Masters in Management from University of Bombay. He has over 25
years of varied experience both in design and in other corporate roles
– in Product Design and Development, Business planning, IT Services Management
and Information Security. He started and heads the User Interactions
Design Group in Tech Mahindra and has focused on User Experience domain
for the past 10 years. He has been a speaker in several national and
international conferences and is a visiting faculty at IDC, IIT Bombay.
Currently he is pursuing his PhD (external) in IDC, IIT- Bombay in the
area of Multi Touch Point User Experience.
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