The document presents two prototypes to help a fashion design student with career planning: a personal coaching program and a technological platform for collaboration. Feedback from testing found that the student preferred the technological solution but had concerns about complexity, costs, and implementation. The designer learned they need to enhance prototypes, get additional stakeholder input, and may be able to implement parts of the solutions despite limitations of time, skills, and resources.

1. Developed as a Project Submission for:
Design Thinking Action Lab By Leticia
Britos Cavagnaro, Stanford University
Prototype and Test

2. Problem Statement
 A goal and task oriented, highly energetic,
dedicated, keen and observing graduate student
who is very focused on meeting deadlines needs
assistance and roadmap on planning her career,
enhancing creativity, and being field ready with
minimal dependence on the internship that may
or may not add to her field skills.

3. Stakeholder Profile
 Fashion Designing student
 Age: 20
 Female
 Energetic and keen to do well in fashion
designing
 Task oriented

4. Two Solutions being Tested in the
Prototypes

5. Prototype 1 – Personal Coaching
Training Map
Topic Medium Strategy
Overview of current
environment
• Conversation over coffee
• Internet articles and books
• Giving an overview of
options over coffee and
then emailing some good
resources, such as videos,
articles that can enable the
stakeholder
Walks and Talks • Conversations • Accompany the stakeholder
during casual site visits to
various boutiques and
fashion shows
Demo • Conversation and computer
demo
• Show an overview of the
technology landscape that
can be leveraged
Weekly Touch base • Conversations and demo • Meet the stakeholder on a
weekly basis to help her
keep up-to-date with the
latest trend

6. Feedback Capture on Prototype
1
What Worked
• Availability of a personal trainer just
like my gym will be excellent
• Will get more field expertise, much
earlier
• Will get to learn more insights
What Could Be Improved
• The solution may not be practical
• It will be good to mention that an
alumni can be a personal coach
Questions
• Who will help in arranging this setup?
• Just wondering if my teachers will help
with this setup?
Ideas
• Can use the alumni forum to make
this work
• Can randomly approach fashion
designers for mentoring

7. Prototype 2 – Technological
Solution (Sketches)

8. Prototype 2 –Technological
Solution
•Featured content and live Hangout feed that will enable students to hop into live hangout sessions and
collaborate
Home Page
•A forum to discuss and share ideas
Forum
•Feeds from social networks platforms like Facebook and twitter
•The feeds will only share content from pages related to Fashion Designing
Social
•Ability to create new online Hangouts on listed topics or something entirely new
Events
•Feature work of only student fashion designers
Showcase or Gallery
•Any content that teachers from different colleges want to share
Teacher’s Corner
An integrated platform that encourages collaboration through Forums, Social Media
Integration, Games and Contests, Showcase or Gallery of Students’ works, and
Blogs

9. Feedback Capture on Prototype
2
What Worked
• Solution will be an awesome product
• The solution will be an one-stop shop
for all my online needs
• Will certainly use this solution
extensively
• Works better than the earlier one
What Could Be Improved
• Not sure if all will be able to use it
• Seems too complex for non-tech
savvy people
• Could cost a lot to implement such a
platform
Questions
• Who will develop this?
• Will you develop this?
• What’s the timeline?
• Will you build an accompanying app
for my phone?
Ideas
• Develop an app for iOS, Android, and
Windows Phone

10. What you learned by testing
your prototypes
 Gave the context of the entire story
 Stakeholder didn’t understand the prototypes and
solution as much as I did
 New ideas can be generated through discussions
with the stakeholders
 Explained a lot to make the stakeholder
understand the purpose and objective of the
solutions
 Had to be very patient

11. were to continue working on
the project
 Choose one prototype
 Enhance designs and prototype
 Have another discussion with the stakeholder
 I may be able to execute some parts of the
prototypes and make them live
 However, complete execution will be a challenge
due to a dearth of time, programming skills, and
resources