FREE

DESIGNING
MOBILE APPS
3-Day Virtual Camp
For High School Students
Wednesday, July 8 - Friday, July 11, 2020

STUDENTS WILL LEARN ABOUT USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
User experience (UX) is how people feel about their experiences with a product or service. A great user experience, for example, is when a mobile app has the features or functionality that you need, is very easy to use, and responds and loads quickly. Students will apply fundamental design concepts and learn about UX disciplines like user research, interaction design, information architecture, and visual design.

SKILLS TAUGHT AT YOUTHXDESIGN CAMP
Creativity by coming up with novel solutions for problems
Communication by effectively expressing their ideas and presenting their projects
Collaboration through group brainstorming sessions and cooperative projects
Leadership through decision-making and ownership of their designs

ACTIIVITIES AT YOUTHXDESIGN CAMP
Problem Discovery is the process of uncovering real-world problems
Design Thinking is a human-centered iterative process designers use to tackle problems
Rapid Prototyping for design is an iterative approach to quickly improve user interfaces
Usability Testing methods improve designs with continuous feedback from end users

TOOLS THAT WE'LL BE USING (ALL FREE)
Google Meet and Google Hangouts for conferencing and messaging
Google Docs for collaboration, documentation, and presentations
Figma for mobile app design creation and prototyping
POP (Prototyping on Paper) for those who want to sketch by hand and prototype with a smartphone
CAMP SCHEDULE
Wednesday
July 8
User Research
Find an opportunity
Find your app idea
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
Offline office hours
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CST
Thursday
July 9
Interaction Design
Sketch your idea
Test your design
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
Offline office hours
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CST
Friday
July 10
Visual Design
Polish your design
Information Architecture
Get ready to code
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
Final presentations
Starts at 1:00 PM CST
INSTRUCTOR: PATRICIA BASUEL
Patricia has been designing for 15+ years and currently works in the railroad industry as a User Experience Manager at Wi-Tronix, an IoT company in Bolingbrook, Illinois. She's worked for both large (Motorola Google/Lenovo) and small companies in tech, transportation, and advertising. She has been teaching summer camps with University of Wisconsin-Whitewater since 2014 through the Cyberhigh program, which is going virtual this year.
Her passion is to encourage young girls to pursue careers in STEM and help bridge the educational opportunities gap for people of color and minorities. She also mentors through UX Coffee Hours, a volunteer-based program that offers career advice to college students and aspiring UX professionals.
CAMP RESOURCES
Are you attending the camp? Download and print out the camp activities guide below and request access to our Google Drive folder where we will be collaborating on projects.