Product Management and Design
CSF007
6 ECTS Credits
Welcome to Product Management and Design
What you’ll learn
This course will teach you how to build products users want and love. It gives you a
foundation in the tools and practices of modern product management and
interaction design. You will collaborate with peers to apply these product development skills
to real user challenges.
The course begins with a focus on user research. You’ll learn and apply the
design thinking framework to product development. You’ll learn to define user
needs through user interviews and market analysis, to translate those needs into product specifications, and define metrics to test
product success. Next you’ll learn to create and test design prototypes
(wireframes, user journeys). You’ll learn key concepts in UI/UX design including information
hierarchy, and typography and color. You will create high-fidelity UI mockups
using industry-standard tools. You’ll conduct usability tests to gauge the
effectiveness of your designs.
Working with your peers, you will practice the complementary and collaborative
roles of PMs and UX designers in early product development. You’ll also practice
giving design critiques to other teams, and responding to feedback on your
designs. By the end of the courses, your team will have a user-tested, refined,
and development-ready spec for a web or mobile application.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Apply at least one product ideation framework (e.g. design thinking) to identify product opportunities
- Conduct qualitative concept tests, and make product decisions based on user feedback
- Create basic wireframes to describe a user journey
- Write product requirements documentation that describe the purpose, features, and metrics of success for a software product
- Design high-fidelity mockups for an application, and build interactive UI prototypes using industry-standard tools
- Analyze and assess a design, and give actionable feedback for improvement
Meeting Times
All times are listed in GMT, please convert to your local timezone.
- Class time: Wednesdays, 5 – 6:30pm GMT
- Office hours: Mondays, 5 – 6pm GMT
Instructors
Folarin Lawal, folarin.lawal@kibo.school
Ope Bukola, ope@kibo.school
Weekly Topics
- Week 1: Software development teams and design thinking
- Week 2: User experience research
- Week 3: User interface design basics
- Week 4: More user interface design
- Week 5: Review week
- Week 6: Product requirements
- Week 7: User flows
- Week 8: Prototyping
- Week 9: Continuous design life cycle
- Week 10: Final project
Course Tools
- Google Docs/Sheets/Slides
- Figma
- Gradescope
- Woolf