IS 419 AOG - Entrepreneurial IT Design

Campus: Urbana-Champaign

Description:

Introduces students to a range of rapid prototyping techniques and methods to analyze needs, opportunities and design spaces. Students will work in teams to develop ideas for novel computational devices or applications to meet identified needs. Covers the interlinked entrepreneurial skills of identifying an unmet need, exploiting technological opportunities, exploring a design space to refine an idea, and communicating a design vision through demonstrations with prototypes and proofs of concept. This enables developers to show how their envisaged working interactive technology will be used productively in a particular real-life context. Communicating the vision of computational devices is a challenge because dynamic use in context is hard for people other than the device's developers to imagine. The ability to produce convincing, clear, powerful demonstrations even at the early stages of a project is a highly valuable entrepreneurial skill, and also highly applicable within an organiza

Special Instructions:

Graduate student questions may be sent to ischool-advising@illinois.edu

Academic Program Restrictions:

PHD: Informatics - UIUC

Option 1

Course Level: Graduate

Credit: 4

Term(s): Fall , Spring