Build and test a product or service prototype - fast

Overview

During this 4-hour workshop, you’ll start prototyping and testing your product ideas to validate whether they solve real problems for real customers.

You’ll dive into hands-on techniques for creating visual prototypes, testing concepts with users, and collecting actionable feedback to guide your product decisions.

Who it’s for

This workshop is open to all UCL students, staff, and alumni who graduated from UCL within the past 2 years.

As this is a bootcamp-style workshop, where you’ll be creating different assets, we encourage you to come with a business idea or project in mind.

For help coming up with ideas, come to one of our 2-hour introductory sessions:

• How to come up with a startup idea that solves a real problem
• How to create a side hustle that will succeed

UCL doctoral students will receive two DocSkills training points via InkPath and the Doctoral School for completing this workshop.

What to expect

This is a bootcamp-style workshop where you’ll work through the product validation process from start to finish.

You’ll use professional tools like ChatGPT, Canva AI, Marvel, Framer and UserBrain to create clickable prototypes and test your ideas with real users.

You’ll also learn how to analyse feedback to make data-driven decisions, ensuring you only move forward with concepts that have been validated by your target audience.

What you’ll learn

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to:

• develop user stories: Use the Double Diamond design process to turn customer insights into actionable user stories. Create effective user personas and customer journeys.
• rapidly prototype your ideas: Leverage ChatGPT and Canva AI to create wireframes and design visuals quickly. Learn the core principles of effective wireframing and create minimum viable user flows.
• create interactive prototypes: Use Marvel to build clickable prototypes that showcase your product idea in a realistic, engaging way.
• test your value proposition: Build landing pages with Framer to validate your product idea and measure user interest without any coding.
• launch user testing: Learn how to set up and run tests with UserBrain, collect actionable feedback, and make informed decisions based on real user data.
• iterate using data: Analyse user behaviour to prioritise improvements and apply design thinking to continue refining your product idea based on validated feedback.

About the tutor

Ed Halliday has spent his career helping entrepreneurial people develop the skills and mindsets to succeed. He's a mission-driven startup co-founder (Coschool, Future Faculty), venture builder (Zinc VC, King's20 Accelerator, Mayor's Entrepreneur), advisor, and COO (Fyma AI, Focaldata AI, Fire Tech, La Fosse Academy).

Ed has spent the last 12 years working with entrepreneurs in the UK, Middle East and South America, helping to build over 100 new ventures and upskill over 3,500 students and founders. He has helped develop new products in AI, health tech, and edtech, and has a strong passion for user-centred design.

Accessibility

If you have any accessibility requirements or requests, please let us know in the signup form.

Photography

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Date and times

Thursday, 18 June, 2pm to 6pm.

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Location

UCL BaseKX, 103c Camley Street, London, N1C 4PF