Digital Luxury Group - Tech workshops series by Le Wagon China.
Hands-on, mentor-driven workshops designed for total beginners to step in tech world and become more savvy. Learn digital skills, better understand technical workflows, and change the way you work with your clients!
Trainers:
- Maria ALTYEVA
- Dounan HU
- Alex DUNCAN
Number of participants: 15
Location: Naked Hub 6F Workshop, 500 Guangdong Lu, World Trade Tower, Huangpu District 黄浦区广东路500号世界贸易大厦裸心社6楼Workshop
Season: October 2018
- Date: Saturday October 13, 2018, 9AM–5PM
- Trainer: Maria Altyeva
- Learning objectives:
- transform a business need into actionable functional specifications,
- make and present basic mockups,
- understand what's the core database scheme,
- draft the product roadmap
MORNING
- How to read a project brief
- The right questions to ask a client before getting started
- How to quickly find out what is possible in the Chinese ecosystem
Hands-on practice with sample brief. (30 min)
- How to translate a client’s needs to a technical team
- How to define a timeline and a budget
- When to create a proof of concept plan.
Hands-on demo with sample brief. (30 min)
AFTERNOON
- How to create a visual prototype of a client brief
- The Dos and Dont’s of mockup design
- Understand how developers create and use databases to store and manipulate information.
- Create a sample database for the previously mocked-up design.
- Date: Saturday October 20, 2018, 9AM–5PM
- Trainer: Dounan HU
- Learning objectives:
- understand API: What a RESTful API is, why it matters
- apply it with many different business cases
- know how to read API documentations
- Intro lecture (1 hour)
- API demo 1 - Map / geolocation API (1 hour)
- Student Challenge 1: Making a Map For a Landing Page
- API demo 2 - Notifications / SMS API (1 hour)
- Student Challenge 2: Making a SMS notification for a Landing Page
- API demo 3 - Flight Tracking Chatbot with API (1 hour)
- Student Challenge 3: Making a Ecommerce Chatbot for Facebook (2 hours)
- CRM Demo: JingSocial chatbot and notification services to push content out to the right people (1 hour)
Louis Vuitton (LV) will host an exhibition "SERIES 88" in Beijing on January 8, 2019. This VVIP event will feature Nicolas Ghesquière (art director) and other high profile fashionistas. The lucky guests will enjoy a night of champagne 🍾 and glamour.
The LV team have decided to invite a few of their top spending chinese customers. 1 month before the event they want to send each VVIP an interactive flyer through WeChat inviting them to SIGN UP. When the VVIP guests arrive at the event, security need to be able to easily validate each guest and CHECK THEM IN.
Thanks to its creative track record and strong technical capabilities, DLG works with LV on a retainer basis, but LV works with multiple agencies and it's not guaranteed you will win this project. You have been asked to propose the best tech solution for this event registration process. LV wants to combine a beautiful flyer for easy SIGN UP through WeChat and a smooth process for security CHECK IN.
It's time for you to prepare your proposal for a meeting where you will try to convince the LV China team and other stakeholders to trust your solution.
During the initial project briefing, you could see the LV team was unsure of the best direction. Should this registration solution be designed and built totally from scratch? or is there a suitable existing software as a service they could take advantage of? or perhaps a hybrid solution (existing API back-end + custom front-end?). To answer this question you need to do your research and be ready to justify your recommendation. LV is a huge luxury brand and they are inviting their most important customers, the process must be smooth and nothing can go wrong.
Your business unit will be scored on your ability to clearly define:
- Project specifications (10 points): SMART goals and prototype
- Solution recommendation (10 points): how + why
- Project planning & workflow (10 points)
- 10 minutes presentation, 3 minutes Q&A
- Max 5 slides
- FIGMA mockups
- Date: Saturday October 27, 2018, 9AM–5PM
- Trainer: Alex DUNCAN
- Learning objectives:
- understand workflows used by software teams (in-house or external)
- get ready for pitfalls and challenges in tech projects
- Agile vs Waterfall (revision)
- Tooling / Kanban
- Daily checkins / stand-ups
- Setting up Development Environments
Hands-on practice: mock client meeting to present the project setup (30 min)
- GIT
- Code Reviews
- Continous Development
- Continuous Integration
- QA / UAT
- Testing environment
- Deployment best practices
- Last minute changes / change orders
Hands-on practice on Git/Github (30 min)
- Participants split in teams of 3-4. Please refer to the case study above (read it prior to this day).
- Work with your team to prepare a
project kickoff meeting
. - Ask any questions to your touchpoint at LV (Alex), if somethings needs clarification.
- Present it live (10 min each) at 4PM
- This exercise will be scored
- email: [email protected]
- wechat: +86 185 1217 8868
Cheers!