This lesson discusses the importance of shaping in product development, and how to use the techniques of breadboarding and fat marker sketches to ideate and refine solutions.

Key takeaways:

• Shaping is the process of defining and refining high-level aspects of a project with a group of senior team members before it's handed off to a team for development.

• A well-defined scope helps to avoid scope creep, ensuring that efforts are focused and purposeful.

• Breadboarding is a technique for mapping out the user's journey across an app by identifying places, affordances, and connections.

• Fat marker sketches are a way to create a visual concept without getting bogged down by intricate details.

• Both breadboarding and fat marker sketches can be used to explore multiple approaches to a problem and refine ideas quickly and efficiently.