About Application Lab
Fall 2018, Interactive Media Business @ NYU Shanghai
This is a project-based course where students ideate and develop small application prototypes and test them with potential users multiple times each week. The course is designed to take maximum advantage of NYU Shanghai’s small class sizes, location in mobile-first China, and the opportunities resulting from students and faculty working and learning together under pressure to deliver innovations that push against the frontiers of the recently possible.
That said, the course also seeks to help students acknowledge, criticize and enhance the often mundane forms of innovation and incrementalism that helps sustain the world of ideas and creativity.
This includes a thorough and critical review of the historical and contextual backdrops that we associate with business innovation and a willingness to learn rapid prototyping methods, software and engineering development techniques as well as explore scholarship and practice across many disciplines.
