E023: Product Design

Product Design takes strategy into tangible form — designing a technical solution, building a low-fidelity prototype, and running a genuine (if limited) user test.

What E023 covers

The course teaches students how to design a technical solution to a business problem, create a low-fidelity prototype of the technical solution, and then conduct a very limited user test using the created prototype.

The course covers skills in functional knowledge contribution, product design, user needs analysis, and software feasibility and usability studies.

The E023 performance assessment

Expect a performance assessment requiring you to design a technical solution, build a low-fidelity prototype, and document results from a limited user test.

Key topics in E023

• Low-fidelity prototyping
• Limited user testing
• User needs analysis
• Feasibility and usability studies

Writing tips for E023

Follow the task instructions and rubric line by line

WGU performance assessments for E023 are graded against a fixed rubric — every rubric line has to be visibly addressed, usually with a labeled heading that mirrors the rubric language. Skipping a rubric point because it seems minor is the single most common reason a competent submission comes back "Not Yet Competent" for revision.

Ground strategy recommendations in the specific scenario, not generic best practice

Management and strategy courses like E023 typically hand you a realistic organizational scenario (a company profile, a set of constraints, existing systems). Evaluators are checking whether your recommendation genuinely fits THAT organization's situation — a textbook-generic answer that could apply to any company usually loses rubric points for lacking scenario specificity.

Because WGU is self-paced, don't let "no deadline pressure" become no submission

There's no weekly due date forcing progress, which means procrastination costs more at WGU than at a traditional term-based school — a stalled task can quietly eat weeks of a term. Treat your own target date for each E023 assessment as a real deadline.

Why students seek help with E023

Students sometimes skip genuine user testing and simply describe what testing "would" find — the course specifically requires an actual (even if small-scale) user test conducted and its real results documented.

How GradeEssays helps with E023

Share your product design task and rubric, and your writer will help structure a genuine low-fidelity prototype and a realistic, properly documented limited user test.

Prerequisites and program context

E023 requires Product Strategy (E022) as a prerequisite.

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