Design Process and Concepting

This course focuses on design processes and concept development. You learn to transform user insights into concepts, prototypes, and presentations, preparing you for collaborative design projects.

15.9.2026 - 26.10.2026

5 cr

Registration period closed

User-centered design process, mindset, and context. Sustainable design principles in concepts
Applying design thinking and producing UX deliverables, for example, personas, scenarios, use cases, requirements, mood boards, storyboards, and low-fidelity prototype
Planning the basic usability test and testing prototypes
Pitching the concept

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Scope

5 cr

Code

IM00GP55

The course prepares the student to develop concepts for user-centered interactive applications and test them. The student applies design thinking and turns user needs into user interface functionalities and visual look and feel.

After completing the course, the student
• Knows the user-centered design principles and design processes
• Understands the role of user-centric design in business success
• Makes design decisions based on user needs and sustainability requirements
• Applies different UX methods, such as research, ideation, modelling, low-fidelity prototyping and testing
• Works fluently in a designer group and uses collaborative design tools

Organiser

Tampere University of Applied Sciences

Contact details

avoinamk@tuni.fi

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