Q5. Test & Improve Step 2
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Feedback for Improvement
Constructive feedback is an important life skill. When you give feedback about another individual or groups design thinking product, it helps if you can give constructive feedback:
- be supportive of their efforts
- ask questions when you don't understand something
- use positive and never negative words
- be honest (not blunt) and provide suggestions to help them consider improvements they might make to their design.
Giving Feedback (1:57)
ALPHA TESTING YOUR PROTOTYPE
Open your Design Thinking Digital Workbook to Quest 5 slides.
Check with your teacher on the process and how much time will be planned. You will be sharing your prototype with others by showing it to them to get feedback.
Listen to them, observe their interactions with it and record your observations on the two Alpha Testing slides - Observing and Questions & Feedback.
Take your turn and give constructive feedback to others as well.
FIRST ITERATION - Improve your design
Use the feedback you received to improve on your design. Follow the directions on the FIRST ITERATION slide.
BETA TESTING
You will be sharing your prototype once again and record their responses, questions, and ideas for improvements on the Beta Testing slide.
SECOND ITERATION
Use the new feedback to improve your design and record your improvements in your workbook.
CONGRATULATIONS! You have completed the Testing and Improving stages for your Design Thinking Project.
Competencies & Standards
MITECS Michigan Integrated Technology Competencies for Students, and
4. Innovative Designer
a. Know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems
c. Develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process
d. Exhibit a tolerance for ambiguity, perseverance and the capacity to work with open-ended problems
Websites and Documents
Websites
Videos from Outside Sources
- Giving Feedback YouTube (1:58)
- How to Test a Prototype with REAL people: User Testing a Functional Prototype YouTube (4:50)
- Innovation 101 YouTube (4:02)
21t4s Videos
21t4s Documents & Quizzes