5 teams left. This week is UX week. To stay in the game, teams need to show us that they can build products that feel good to use. Function alone won’t cut it — they need to nail form as well.
5 teams left. This week is UX week. To stay in the game, teams need to show us that they can build products that feel good to use. Function alone won’t cut it — they need to nail form as well.
User experience (UX) is notoriously hard to get right. It’s how the app looks, how it feels, how intuitive it is to use, and dozens of other small considerations that add up to a split-second decision by the user: is this app “good” or “bad”?
Many builders treat UX as optional, but that’s a huge mistake that costs users. We’ve all tried out a new product or app just to be frustrated by weird interactions, unclear next steps, broken buttons, and general jankiness. In this episode, we’ll find out which of our teams understands just how big a role UX plays in their success.
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Host and judges
Host: Kelsey Hightower, distinguished engineer https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelsey-hightower-849b342b1/ Judge: Jason Lengstorf, creator of CodeTV https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlengstorf/ Aaron Francis, VP of Marketing and Community at Laravel https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarondfrancis/
About this series
Great devs build great projects. But building a great product is about more than the frontend and backend. Kelsey Hightower hosts a competition to find out what it takes to really be a builder.
The Full Stack is a competition reality series presented by Amazon Web Services and produced by CodeTV. 8 teams compete to build a full product, from idea all the way through to production. Each episode presents a new set of challenges to test the builders’ abilities across the entire spectrum of building not just an app, but a business. And every episode, 1 team will miss the mark and go home.
This is not a hackathon. And for these teams, they’ll need a lot more than just code if they hope to win.
More from this series
Pitch Week
You can code a project, but can you build a product? 8 teams compete to prove they’ve got what it takes. Only 7 will advance to next week.
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Prototype Week
7 teams remain. To stay in the competition, they need to turn their pitch into a crystal clear prototype that shows the judges their product vision — and its value.
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MVP Week
6 teams remain, and the competition — and their products — are about to get real. They need to ship an MVP to impress the judges, or risk going home.
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Launch Week
4 teams left! They’ve built products that were good enough to keep them in the competition, but if they want to make it to the finale, it’s time to launch.
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Finale
SEASON FINALE — 3 teams left, and only one can win. Can they impress AWS leadership?
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