2. Lab: User Research & Flutter Basics

In this lab you will understand your users, sharpen your project idea and get started with Flutter.

• Everything which should be done individually is labeled with .
• Tasks divided in the team are labeled .
• Remember, everyone needs to do some tasks for each lab.
• You will get feedback for everything with three days after this lab, and we will discuss it at the start of lab 3, i.e. another chance for feedback ;)

2.1 Preparation

Everything if this chapter should be available in an alpha feature complete version.¹

2.1.1 Flutter: Setup, Dart, Architecture, First Contact

1. install -- if you have flutter installed already, make sure to run flutter upgrade
2. Codelab -- just read through it, code as you like, to get an idea, what is different to the way of programming you know.
3. Read and understand the flutter basics up to Events and Event-Handling (13.4.2).
4. Clone your team repository, create a folder learning\yourLastName\lab2 and create a little app with 2 screens (we will do it together in the lecture)
   • the first screen contains a greeting message, an image and a button
   • when you click on the button you will be navigated to the second screen
   • on the second screen there is an input text and a button
   • if you click on the button something should happen based on your input
   • your app should run in your browser

2.1.2 Prepare User Research and Interview

Read and understand the chapters User Research and Requirement Engineering.

Plan, document and start with your user research. Use the provided file docs/2-UserResearch.md.

For the lab we need

• description of the problem you want to address
• criteria/assumptions of your users
• hypotheses
• questions for the interview

2.2 During the lab

• We discuss your questions.
• We will all look at your first apps.
• You will run a pilot interview.
• Based on the pilot interview
  • You will review your interview guide.
  • You will write a first version of your vision.
  • You will write a first version of your persona.
  • You will write a first version of a scenario.
• You assign the to-dos.

2.3 After the lab

Document the following parts in your portfolio (use the file docs/2-UserResearch.md)

• final interview guide
• 2 real interviews
• 2 personas
• 1 scenario
• vision in the readme of your repository
• reflect shortly, what went well, what was a waste of time and what was surprising

Within gitlab

• create issues (use the template provided) for your MVP

Do not focus on tedious work, but ensure at least one delighter and your unique selling point is addressed properly. Try to formulate your issues from the perspective of your persona. The issues should be small -- realized within a day at most.