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Prototyping for engineers
Test an idea on paper and in code before anyone plans a sprint around it.
Rated 4.4690 reviews8,150 learners
Taught by Mara Lindqvist, verified instructorDesign director · systems · Fieldhouse Design- Length
- 4 weeks at 4 hours a weekAt your own pace, starting today
- Credential
- Earn a course certificateIssued by Fieldhouse Design
- Language
- Taught in EnglishWith subtitles in 8 languages
- Tutor
- An AI tutor in every lessonIt answers from the lesson on screen
$59once, yours to keep
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About this course
Paper first, then throwaway code with real data, then five people using what you made while you watch and take notes. Engineers take it to find out in a week whether an idea is worth a quarter of their team's time.
Skills you practice
Syllabus
4 modules
Ends on the project
12 lessons
7 to 17 min each
2 h 28 min of video
Pause to ask the tutor
2 free lessons
Watch before you pay
3 quizzes
21 questions in all
1 project
Reviewed by Mara's team
- 1.2Choosing the fidelity17 min
- 1.3Tasks in place of questions8 min
- Quiz · 7 questions9 min
- 2.2Clickable prototypes from sketches17 min
- 2.3Fake data that reads as real17 min
- Quiz · 8 questions8 min
- 3.1Throwaway code with real data7 min
- 3.2Feature flags for a live prototype15 min
- 3.3Recording what people do17 min
- Quiz · 6 questions7 min
- 4.1Recruiting five users12 min
- 4.2Running the session8 min
- 4.3Turning notes into a decision13 min
- Project · Prototype a feature idea and test it with five people in one week2 hours
What the price covers
In the price
- 12 video lessons, 2 h 28 min in all
- The AI tutor beside every lesson
- 3 quizzes, graded as you answer
- A project reviewed by Mara's team
- A course certificate when you finish
- Transcripts in 8 languages
Not in it
- Answers the tutor writes for you
- Live classes
- One-to-one mentoring
- A job guarantee
Your instructor
Mara Lindqvist, verified instructor
Design director · systems
- Rating
- 4.7
- Learners
- 86.4K
- Courses
- 5
15 years in product design
I run the design system eleven product teams use.
Career highlight
Our system halved the time from sketch to screen.
How Mara teaches
You get notes on your own work every week.
Reviews, rated4.4690 reviews
Overall rating
- 5 stars, 59% of reviews
- 4 stars, 28% of reviews
- 3 stars, 7% of reviews
- 2 stars, 3% of reviews
- 1 star, 2% of reviews
Lena M.Product designer
3 weeks agoFinished
The weekly critique is the course. Mara's notes on my layouts were blunt and specific, and I could not argue with a single one of them.
Esther K.Service designer
4 months agoFinished
Every assignment came back with notes within three days of handing it in, and the notes were about my screen, with arrows on it. I have paid more for courses whose instructors never looked at my work once. I run service design for a city council now, and I still reread those notes before I lead a critique of my own team's screens on a Monday morning.
Omar S.Junior designer
4 weeks agoFinished
The tutor never says which layout is better. It asks what the reader looks at first, and now I ask that of every screen I make at work.
Sipho N.Design student
3 months agoFinished
My portfolio reviews changed after this course. People asked about my process and research, where they used to ask about fonts.
Hiro T.Front-end developer
2 months agoFinished
I am an engineer, and by week two I could see why my layouts looked off to other people. I will never see spacing the same way again.
Kwame A.Graphic designer
1 month agoFinished
I came from print, and this course was the bridge. The exercises use real product screens, which was what I needed to see.
6 of 690 reviews
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A certificate from the school that made the course, and the project the instructor's team reviewed. Each comes with a link that anyone, an employer included, can open and check in a few seconds.
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Waypoint Plus is $29 a month and opens this course along with every other. At $59 this one costs about 2 months of it, so buy it on its own if it is the only course you mean to take this year.
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