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The Unexpected Power of Lo-Fi UX + UI Prototyping (Udemy.com)

Improving Communication, Collaboration + Design

4.6

58 reviews

Created by: Joe Natoli

Last updated July 2022

What you will learn

Leverage lo-fi UX prototypes to prevent and predict product failure
Use lo-fi prototypes to develop and validate product requirements
Use lo-fi prototypes to manage stakeholder, manager and team expectations
Use lo-fi prototypes to increase communication and collaboration between stakeholders, managers, clients and teams
Use the right prototyping method (paper, whiteboard, software or coded) at the right time for the right reasons
Understand how prototyping integrates into an existing lean or agile product design + development process
Get a handle on the tools used for prototyping — and when (and why) to use each

How it compares

Against the other 144 rated Udemy courses in UX Design on CourseDuck:

Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 79% of them
Reviews58#119 of 145 by number of reviews
Length2 hoursshorter than 75% of them
Last updatedJuly 2022more recently than 56% of them

Course Description

Teams — and stakeholders in particular — are always tempted to skip prototyping and dive right into production-level code.

But in doing so, they're missing out on something. And that something isn't necessarily what you think.

Sure, lo-fi prototyping makes the end result a lot more useful to both users and the business — but what most people don't realize is that when done properly, it also does a tremendous amount of heavy lifting in improving team communication and collaboration.

It's a process that holds the power to prevent product design from becoming a ping-pong game of guesswork: a vicious cycle where the team is guessing at what the stakeholder wants, while the stakeholder becomes increasingly frustrated that what they’re seeing is not it. Design and development are at each other’s throats because the other side keeps surprising them with the latest round of iteration.

Prototypes are the perfect vehicle for increasing communication and collaboration.

They can, do and should generate product requirements. Leveraging that power ensures that when something unexpected comes up (and it will) later, everyone involved in the project is in a position to anticipate and react to it quickly. Which keeps them from painting themselves into any number of corners.

I’ve seen the practices I’ve shared with you here adopted successfully by enterprise organizations of all shapes and sizes across multiple industries – from small startups to massive global companies, names you’d recognize.

Those organizations put these principles into practice for one single, solitary reason:

They work.

I'd like to show them how to make them work for you as well, from the ground up.

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Instructor Details

Joe Natoli

4.6 Rating
58 Reviews

For more than 30 years, I've helped organizations build better products and helped the people behind those products become more effective at what they do.

Over 400,000 students around the world have taken my courses across multiple learning platforms, but the number I'm proudest of isn't an enrollment statistic. It's the number of students who've told me they finally understand why things happen the way they do inside product teams, and how to navigate them with confidence.

My career has taken me from startups to Fortune 100 companies, healthcare organizations, financial institutions, and federal government agencies. I've worked with companies like Google, Meta, Broadridge, Kroll, Johns Hopkins and many others, as well as organizations including the U.S. Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Those experiences shaped how I teach.

Most courses focus on process: the steps, the deliverables, the frameworks, the tools.

Those things do matter — but they're rarely what determines whether a product succeeds.

The biggest challenges I've seen over three decades aren't usually technical. They're misunderstandings. Misaligned priorities. Poor communication. Unclear goals. Decisions made without evidence. Teams working hard... but not together.