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Mobile apps! Fun games, information gadgets, and simulations for your cell phone or tablet. In this challenge, you will find out more about the field of interaction design and learn some of the principles of designing an app for an end user. You will learn how to use App Inventor, a free tool from MIT to help you quickly and easily create cool new apps of your own design!
The final challenge will require you to identify a mobile app need and design and build an app to fill that need. Be creative!
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200 Level - You've had some practice
Designers frequently design products for people that are nothing like them. Try it for yourself. Pick any product that is not designed for you. For example, if you are a teenage boy, choose something that is created for kindergarten girls like a toy or bicycle).
First, talk to some people from the target audience about the product your picked. Find what they think they like and don't like about it. Ask what would make it better. Then come up with a plan for improving that product to attract more users. You can improve the design, the advertisement, the packaging... whatever you think could be made better. Then write a Product Improvement Report to explain your design recommendation.
To complete this activity: Write a blog post containing your Product Improvement Report. Say what you learned from talking the target audience and how that influenced your decisions for product improvements.
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