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STEAM & Dream Week 4: Product Development+ Prototyping

This week we are learning about the prototyping phase in product development.

The prototyping phase is experimental. The goal is to identify the best possible solution by creating a representation of your product. You should produce some inexpensive, scaled-down versions of the product (or specific features found within the product) to research the ideas you’ve generated with your target customer base. This could involve simply paper prototyping.

In this weeks lesson we will walk through different prototyping techniques and tools to prepare you to submit your ideas to our pitch competition!

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STEAM & Dream Week 3: Product Development+ Ideate

This week we are learning about the ideate phase in product development.

It’s time to step through the ideation phase. This is sometimes thought of as the most exciting phase because you’ll have the ability to think of an abundance of ideas and narrow them down to the most practical and sensible solutions.

In this weeks activity we will draw insights from the define phase carried out last week and build insights to arrive at a proposed solution.

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STEAM & Dream Week 2: Product Development+ Define

This week we are learning about the define phase in product development.

In the Define stage, we compile information from the empathize phase to discover a problems that can be solved. This is the time where you will analyze your observations and prioritize them in order of which problems you found were causing the most pain to your user/target customer. Note, you should seek to define the problem as a problem statement in a human-centered manner.

In this weeks activity we will draw insights from the empathy phase carried out last week and build insights to arrive at a problem statement.

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STEAM & Dream Week 1: Product Development+ Empathy

Product development is a series of steps that includes the conceptualization, design, development and marketing of newly created or newly rebranded goods or services. Its exciting to develop ideas with unique characteristics that offer new or additional benefits to a customer.

Product development may involve modification of an existing product or an development of an entirely new product that satisfies a newly defined customer in a new market.

In this weeks lesson we focus on the first step of product development – identifying customer/ market need through a design thinking process.

We will leverage design thinking to better understand the customer so that we can refine our idea to best suit our customers needs.

“Empathize” is the first stage of the Design Thinking process. In the empathize stage, your goal, as a product developer is to gain an empathic understanding of the people you’re designing for and the problem you are trying to solve.

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