This year Sandbox offers two Master's Theses Topics:

AI Tools for User Experience Design

This thesis will explore the current state of AI-enabled prototyping tools for creating web and app-based interfaces.

The research question to be answered is: What is the current landscape of AI-enabled prototyping tools and to evaluate: 1) how usable they are as a tool for creating prototypes and 2) what is the quality of the prototypes they produce?

The study will begin with an introduction and literature review to establish the relevance and significance of AI in the prototyping space. It will then compare 3 to

Course: Digital Product Management Industry Project
Team LHV: Külli Kivioja-Ööpik (Digital Product Management micro-credential programme), Shailaja Mahara (Master's in Software Engineering), Mariliis Mieler-Tallo (Conversion Master in IT), Aleksandr Roslin (Digital Product Management micro-credential programme), Henrik Aavik (Digital Product Management micro-credential programme)
Semester: Spring 2024

The challenge
AS LHV Pank is an Estonian-capital-based bank, serving more than 400,000 clients. LHV services for private customers include management of daily financial affairs and home loans. LHV's competitive edge is the best customer experience and offering customers the best options for growing their money. The services for Business customers include flexible and

Course: Digital Product Management Industry Project
Team MKM: Eva-Liisa Heinmaa (Conversion Master in IT), Tiina Vint (Conversion Master in IT), Yaroslava Mykhailenko (Master's in Computer Science), Alamin Khan (Master's in Computer Science), Shirley Salm (Digital Product Management micro-credential programme)
Semester: Spring 2024

The challenge
A significant amount of data produced by public and private sector organizations remains underutilized, often confined to the organization where it was generated. Yet, the potential benefits of data sharing are substantial, presenting opportunities for revenue through data sales and the creation of additional value from data assets.

Although various ministries and institutions have explored different

Course: Digital Product Management Industry Project
Team SK ID: Kristiina Oksner (Master's in Computer Science), Xinyue Zhang (Master's in Computer Science), Azhar Kazakbaeva (Master's in Software Engineering), Abdul-Rasheed Olatunji Ottun (PhD in Computer Science), Rene Juuse (Digital Product Management micro-credential programme)
Semester: Spring 2024

The challenge
Estonia is one of the few countries that have a widespread ability to electronically sign independently from e-service providers. The software component in focus is the DigiDoc client and mainly its versions in iOS and Android. That is currently offered by the government and paid by taxpayers. SK operates in several other EU countries,

You are invited to the 6th birthday of Sandbox!

Come and join us as we celebrate 6 years of innovation with cake and prototyping on April 25 at 14:00.

Like a traditional 6 year-olds birthday, there will be cake, games and fun chaos!

Where: r3092 (Sandbox), Delta Center third floor
When: 14:00-16:00
We ask you to register HERE to know how much cake we need!

Feel free to direct any questions you have at sandbox@ut.ee

Course: Digital Product Management Industry Project
Semester: Autumn 2023

Another semester of the Digital Product Management Industry Project has been successfully concluded. In this industry collaboration-focused course, the participating students are tasked with producing high-fidelity prototypes that could solve the problem statements provided by the industry partner. This time around, the course had five teams that all tackled problem statements from Bolt and the Autonomous Driving Lab here at the Institute of Computer Science.

Digital Product Management Industry Project is a unique course in the Institute of Computer Science. It teaches the students WHY they should solve some problem instead

Course: Digital Product Management Industry Project
Team Triumf Health: Liina Aru (Conversion Master in IT), Kadri Koit (Conversion Master in IT), Araz Heydarov (Master's in Computer Science), Gulnar Mammadli (Master's in Computer Science)
Semester: Spring 2023

The challenge
Triumf Health has created the Triumfland Saga mobile health game for children to improve their mental health and wellbeing. This age-appropriate adventure game is for building resilience in a fun and engaging way – it’s methodology is backed by science and it helps build measurable skillset to navigate through feelings and emotions. The game is personalized and made accessible for everyone, whenever

Course code: LTAT.05.029
Amount of credits: 3 ECTS
Schedule: Autumn (in Estonian) and Spring (in English) semester
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The course aims to introduce the basic principles of design thinking to apply creative and imaginative methods to point towards future solutions in different fields.

Design thinking offers an opportunity to experience, explore and solve complicated, many-faceted problems of innovation, systems design, and process management as a specific toolbox and the set of cognitive, strategic, and practical processes. It is a way to improve and systematize thinking based on experience from different fields.

The theoretical-practical course focuses on

The most successful products are the ones that deliver real value and joy to people. That requires companies to identify the unmet needs and opportunities in order to define the right products to build and then make sure they’re working effectively for users to meet their goals so smoothly that they’ll keep coming back. When products are built on assumptions or launched without being validated, the risk of failure is high, but the bigger risk is losing users.

This talk will focus on the role and value of user experience research as an integrated part of the product

Course: Digital Product Management Industry Project
Team Nõo Lihatööstus: Lichettey Aavik, Pirgit Pajoma, Pille Neider-Kuusalu, and Lauri Ütsik (Conversion Master in IT students)
Semester: Spring 2023

The challenge
Nõo Lihatööstus transports their products to clients using various plastic boxes. Once the delivery is made, clients are expected to return the empty boxes. Unfortunately, a significant number of boxes are being misplaced during this process. Nõo Lihatööstus is seeking a digital solution that can effectively monitor and keep track of the quantity of the boxes returned by each individual client.

Process and solution
During the course, the Nõo