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Prerequisites:
Participants should have a basic understanding of web or app design.

What to Bring:
Please bring your laptop, a smartphone, sketch paper and a pen.

In this two and a half hour long workshop attendees will learn about the current state of UX along with the limitations of common deliverables such as wireframes in conveying product vision. A point of view on prototyping and why it is the most critical tool now in user experience design will be presented. We will cover available tools for prototyping such as Invision, Justinmind, Balsamique and others. We will also present a case study and go through the process of creating a quick prototype from scratch for desktop and mobile.