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Who Is This For?
User-centered design day. Students mapped invisible journeys, learned JTBD framework, and enriched PRDs with user journey layers.
What Happened
The Invisible Journeys exercise was a hit. Students discovered friction in tools they use daily, then channeled that awareness into their own PRDs. The side-by-side build comparison made the case for PRD enrichment more effectively than any lecture could.
Key Moments
- Dictation-as-capture resonated — several students adopted it immediately
- Comparing Day 1 vs Day 2 builds showed clear PRD enrichment impact
- Journey maps surfaced friction points students hadn't noticed before
Student Highlights
“I've used UpToDate hundreds of times and never noticed how many clicks it takes to get to a dosing table.”
— Kevin
Learning Targets (as planned)
Knowledge
- Personas — who specifically uses this?
- Jobs to Be Done — what is the user hiring this app to do?
- Journey mapping — step-by-step user experience
- Friction & delight as feature prioritization
Skills
- Voice-to-text capture (dictation as superpower)
- Using Claude to turn messy capture into structured journey maps
- Comparing daily builds to see PRD enrichment impact
Mindset
- Curiosity over assumptions
- Users know things you don’t
- Messy capture → structured output
Schedule (as planned)
| Time | Block | What Happens |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 AM | Morning Exercise | “Invisible Journeys” posted in Slack |
| By 9:30 AM | Exercise Due | Post in #hds-general |
| 10:00–10:45 AM | Group Session | Pull up 2–3 student posts, show how different raw inputs converge into useful journey maps. Introduce UCD toolkit: Personas, Jobs to Be Done, Journey Mapping, Friction & Delight. |
| 10:45–11:00 AM | Break | |
| 11:00 AM–12:00 PM | Build Task | Show yesterday’s Masterplan with a User Journey layer — watch what Lovable does differently. Plan teams’ approach. |
| 12:00–1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:00–3:00 PM | Build Time | Teams add User Journey layer to PRDs. Fresh Lovable build from enriched PRD. Compare: yesterday’s build vs. today’s. |
| 3:00 PM | Deliverable | Post updated PRD with User Journey layer + new Lovable build in Slack. Push to GitHub. |
| 3:30–4:30 PM | Group Debrief | Compare builds. What changed when you added user journey thinking? |
Up Next
Day 3 brings design guidelines and guest speaker Brittany Sigler.