For the Imagine Cup 2011 in Trinidad, I worked with Microsoft Trinidad and Tobago to run this bootcamp on User Experience Design geared at students and first timers to User Experience thinking. Comments are more than welcome!

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Imagine Cup 2011 Trinidad Bootcamp #1
Presenter: Nissan Dookeran
Twitter: @nissandookeran
E-mail: nissan_dookeran@msn.com

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*Why think about the User
Experience?
*Introduction to User Experience
Design Concepts
*Introduction to User Experience
Design Tools
*Microsoft Expression Blend
with SketchFlow

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* Technology alone can’t make great products.
* Great design requires no explanation
* http://www.microsoft.com/design

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*Who are your customers? What skills and
knowledge do they have?
*What goals and tasks will they use your
product to complete?
*What assumptions are we making and how
can we verify them?

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*What different sources of data can
we use to understand their
experience?
*What sources of data do we have?
(Usability studies and heuristic
evaluations are good places to start.)

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* Who are your users?
* What story are you trying to share?
* How do you want them to interact with your
application? Browser? Desktop? Mobile?
* Where are they using your application? Via
Internet Explorer 9 Web Browser? Via Windows 7
Desktop? Via a Windows Phone?
* Why would they keep coming back to your site?

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10. *Desktop
*Browser
*Mobile Phone
*Another Connected Device?
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11. *At home?
*At work?
*At school?
*At a doctor’s office?
*With friends (the social
component)?
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Microsoft Expression Blend and SketchFlow