About Workshop

Regardless of what domain you come from, the industry’s requirement for design thinking, product innovation, and creative skills are now more than ever. Hence, presenting you an industry-standard 5-day Bootcamp/workshop on Product Design & Interaction design, which is a fully immersive, hands-on practical experience starting from scratch.

It focuses on the core of Design Thinking and Problem-Solving approach which are based on the real-life scenarios and synthesizing design for them which is deployment ready..

This Workshop seeks to address these questions and provides foundation level input for a more advanced programme to those who wish to pursue the subject further.

Who will benefit from this programme?

This workshop is open to all Students pursuing B. Tech/MCA/BBA/MBA programmes, practicing engineers in Product design and development, Design researchers and for all enthusiasts of Product and UI/UX Design.

Why to attend this workshop?

• This workshop provides “Quick Grasp” on complete Product Design, UX/UI Design process along with the much-needed Design Strategies, while working on different industry level tools and techniques which to create beautiful and “functional design of mobile apps and applications”.
• This workshop will be concluded with the UI/UX Designation in which you will present your created project in the bootcamp/workshop and the winners will be rewarded along with the certifications.
• In this bootcamp our you will get to know the right strategies of product design, design research and development, how to kickstart your career with the design roles and preparation strategy for cracking design entrances at NID/IITs.

About Industry Expert: Adithya Sharma

Mr. Aditya Sharma has worked in the design domain for nearly 7 years & has given 4+ years to the design industry where he has worked with Amazon India(UI/UX Designer), Unacademy(Design Lead) and Pre-image(UI/UX Consultant). He specialises in “Interaction & UI/UX Design, Product Design & Design Research”. Further his areas of work include Motion and Visual Design, Micro-interactions and design for Social applications. Currently he is doing M.Des. from prestigious “National Institute of Design, Banglore. He is Visiting Design Mentor at Designerrs Lab Bangalore training industry professionals with their design journey. He is featured Design mentor at ADPList.org and Designed.org very well-known Design communities across the globe and has founded Whitespace Design Foundation an open design community.

The workshop is open to all aspirants including Students, Professionals, Faculty, Practice Engineers and Research Scholars

Workshop Structure

• Commencement Date: Monday, June 14, 2021
• No. of Learning Tracks: 5
• Schedule:June 14, to June 18, 2021
• Time: 06:00 PM to 07:50 PM IST
• Program Time: 15 Hours/900 Minutes
• Mandatory Pre-requisite: No pre-requisites, having a basic knowledge related to design would be added benefit

Workshop Fee (incl Tax) per Candidate

Learning Tracks

Day 1: -

• Introduction to the Design Thinking & User Centered Design process and design terminologies.
• Introduction to Interaction Design and UI/UX Design
• Cognitive Psychology and Emotional behavioural aspects of design.
• UX Trends & Emerging Technologies (gestures, Tangible & white interfaces. AR/VR, AI, IOT)
• Starting with Adobe XD
• Activity/Task
• Product Design Brief Selection

Day 2: - Starting with Product Design : Phase 1: User Research

• UX Research tools and Techniques: Doing User Interviews, Creating Persona, Customer Journey Maps, Empathy Maps, Mind maps for products
• Information Classification, Introduction to Task Flow and User flow
• Gamification in UX and Gamification Framework.
• Hierarchical and Linear methods
• What is Information Architecture, L.A.T.C.H Framework for Information Architecture
• Activity/Task

Day 3: Phase 2: Design Ideation and Brainstorming.

• Fundamentals & Laws of Interaction Design
• What is a Wireframe? Wireframe types Creating Low & High-fidelity wireframes
• Digital & Non-Digital methods
• Intro to UI design patterns
• Prototyping – types and Methods
• User Testing with paper prototyping
• Difference between wireframing and prototyping
• Activity/Task- Wireframing, User Flow, Information Architecture

Day – 4: Phase 3: Visual Design and Interactive Prototyping

• Principles of design, Visual design and 8 Elements of Design
• Grids in Adobe XD, Designing for responsive
• Typography & Colours selection for web & mobile, Color theory & Psychology.
• Creating UI Style Guides, Repeat Grids, Component States.
• Animations and Micro interactions, Rapid Prototyping
• Auto animate in XD, Nested components, Gestures, Micro-interactions, Voice Interactions, Audio enabled Prototyping.
• Activity: Interactive prototyping, micro-interactions

Day-5 : Project Handoff, Career Session

• Developer hand-off your projects.
• Portfolio Creation for projects
• Generating out of the box ideas and how to approach them to make a product.
• Career Session: Prepare for Design roles, how to make portfolios for it. How to start with a design role in industry. Participation in Design Hackathons
• Going Ahead with Design Masters at NIDs/IITs. How to prepare and crack.
• Open Mic for Question and Answers, Feedback
• Submission & review of the projects and award ceremony for winners/winner groups