Tech Ready Founder: The Ultimate Guide to App Prototyping

Name: Tech Ready Founder: The Ultimate Guide to App Prototyping
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Learn step by step how to take your concept from "just an app idea" to "ready to build."

Created byMitch and Sam From TechSuite.io

Last updated 4/2021

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What you'll learn

What is a software prototype and why do we do it?
How to go from idea to prototype
Discovering your customer, their pains, and their goals
Devising a solution to your customer's problems
Converting that solution from manual process to programmatic
Creating and testing product hypotheses
Setting and tracking actionable metrics and feedback mechanisms
Writing user stories
Prioritizing features
Converting user stories to wireframes
Finding design inspiration
Creating a brand identity
How to hire the best designer for your project
How to give proper feedback to your designer
Gathering feedback via usability testing with real customers
Processing and interpreting feedback
Revising your prototype and product strategy

Course content

3 sections • 24 lectures • 2h 54m total length

Introduction5:04
Book a call with Mitch on https://calendly.com/mitchfromtechsuite
Fail Faster or Succeed Sooner 1 - What is a software prototype?5:58
Define a software prototype, explain why to prototype, and show how to move from idea to a non-functional prototype for real users, with MVP and proof of concept comparisons.
Fail Faster or Succeed Sooner 2 - Why we prototype8:26
Fail Faster or Succeed Sooner 3 - How to go from idea to prototype6:15
Product Strategy 1 - Problem15:31
Product Strategy 2 - High-level solution9:06
Product Strategy 3 - Customer avatar(s)5:43
Define and build customer avatars or personas for each user type in a two-sided marketplace, using detailed profiles like David Jones to inform MVP decisions and adoption strategies.
Product Strategy 4 - Product hypotheses8:05
Craft and test value creation and growth hypotheses, grounded in lean startup principles by Eric Ries, to reveal value, test economics, and leverage network effects for exponential growth.
Product Strategy 5 - Actionable metrics5:04
Product Strategy 6 - Feedback mechanism5:06

User Experience 1 - Creating your user stories13:11
Learn to prototype through user experience design by turning features into user stories, prioritizing essential flows, and converting them into wireframes with acceptance criteria.
User Experience 2 - Prioritizing features8:18
Prioritize features for an MVP by scoring value and growth hypotheses against time and budget, avoiding feature overload, and planning lean prototypes for multiple user journeys.
User Experience 3 - Converting user stories to wireframes10:16
Convert user stories into wireframes and user flows, sketch low fidelity layouts, and digitize with reusable components to test usability and guide agile UI design.
User Interface 1 - Finding design inspiration6:33
Transform low fidelity wireframes into high fidelity user interface designs by finding design inspiration, identifying trends, and compiling a 5–10 image collection from Dribbble and Behance to brief your designer.
User Interface - Creating a brand identity8:58
Develop a focused brand identity for your prototype by finalizing a logo, two fonts, and two to three colors, and learn to hire quick, affordable designers on Fiverr.
User Interface 3 - Why you shouldn’t try this yourself3:20
User Interface 4 - Where to hire your designer6:08
Book a call with Sam to get your prototype done in TechSuite's Prototyping Studio: https://calendly.com/samc621
For the 30-minute call, please come prepared with your brand identity and wireframes to ensure that you're ready to begin prototyping!
User Interface 5 - Assessing themes2:52
User Interface 6 - Feedbacking the designer7:03

Gathering Feedback On Your Prototype 1 - Why you need feedback7:21
Gathering Feedback On Your Prototype 2 - Usability testing12:13
Live Usability Test Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bMmmX8FtBs
Virtual Usability Test Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U0PfOQNlZg
Gathering Feedback On Your Prototype 3 - Processing feedback3:41
Gathering Feedback On Your Prototype 4 - Updating wireframes5:30
Gathering Feedback On Your Prototype 5 - Where do you go from here?4:57
Book a call with Mitch on https://calendly.com/mitchfromtechsuite

Requirements

We recommend you start out with at least a rough idea of what kind of app you want to build.

Description

Welcome to Tech Ready Founder Volume 1, the Ultimate Guide to App Prototyping Success, where you will learn how to go from “I have an idea for an app” to “I’m 100% ready to build my app.” The course will be led by Mitch Sapoff and Sam Corso from TechSuite, who for the last 5 years have been building and launching software successfully, having also helped well over 100 startups do the same. This has resulted in a combined $15+ Million in Venture funding, over $25 Million in revenue, and 5 exits between them and their clients.

This course has been designed for hungry entrepreneurs looking to save a significant amount of money and time on development and nail it on their 1st try. By the end of this course, you will know how to devise a concrete product strategy for any idea, create an intuitive UI/UX, and validate your concept before even starting development. Here, we’ll be teaching you a product development methodology made famous by the Lean Startup, that’s currently used by almost all of Silicon Valley’s high-growth tech companies. With this, the whole goal is to get your idea out to the world as quickly and affordably as possible so that you can start gathering feedback and iterating immediately.

In Tech Ready Founder Volume 1, not only will we teach you how to prototype and validate your idea in 3 weeks or less, but we’ll actually walk you through the entire process from scratch with a mock app idea of our own. The ideal student for this course is an entrepreneur that’s not overly technical but has an app idea that they need help validating and building. If that sounds like you, let’s get started. We’d love to help you build the world’s next great idea.

Who this course is for:

Prospective or existing entrepreneurs that have an app idea
Business owners that want to build software to take their business to the next level
Digital Agencies and/or Dev Shops that want to improve their prototyping skills

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Course content

Week One - Laying The Foundations For Your Software Product10 lectures • 1hr 14min

Week Two - Creating Your Prototype9 lectures • 1hr 7min

Week Three - Testing Your Concept With Real Customers5 lectures • 34min

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