# Week 9: Mapping key flows, and ideating
Learning Objective
By the end of this week, students will:
- Review user task flow techniques to produce user flow map for their product
- Review UI design skills to create preliminary design for user testing
Class 1
- Map out key flows for the primary persona
- Validate your Information Architecture against it
- Resubmit validated/revised IA before Week 9-2 class
Class 2
- Consider which navigation model may suit your key user flow(s)
- Implement your IA to mobile screen layout in navigation model of your choice
- Ideate many possible solutions for key screens in your user flow, to be used in paper prototype
# Week 9 - Required preparation for class 1
# Read
- Review MAD9020 Week 13 slides (opens new window) (6-10) – MAP OUT ALL SCREENS, BRAINSTORM
- User flow design process (opens new window)
# Resources
- iOS Human Interface Guidelines (opens new window)
- Material Design 2 (opens new window)
- Material Design 3 (opens new window)
# Lesson Slides
- Week 9-1 Lecture: User Flows (opens new window)
- Week 9-1b Inclass: User flows & Validating IA (opens new window)
# Week 9 - Required preparation for class 2
# Read
- Ideation (opens new window)
- Wireframing (opens new window)
- Navigation for mobile applications (opens new window)
- Dropdowns Should be the UI of Last Resort (opens new window)
# References
- RIP Dropdowns (Video) (opens new window)
- Android versions: A living history from 1.0 to 13 (opens new window)
- The History of iOS, from Version 1.0 to 16.0 (opens new window)
# Lesson Slides
- Week 9-2 Lecture: Wireframing & Ideating (opens new window)
- Week 9-2b In-class: Wireframing & Ideating (opens new window)
# TODO
TODO before next week
- Read all the notes for Week 10 and watch the videos. This will help you answer pop-quiz questions and prepare you for the lectures and the in-class exercises.
# Assignments
For class 1:
- Week 9 Class 1 work: User flows to validate IA
- Re-submit validated/revised IA before Week 9-2 class
For class 2: