Designing Products, Experiences, and Marketing
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During my Information Architecture coursework at Kent State, we were tasked with updating a public library website. The Sharon (Massachusetts) Public Library website currently resembles many other public library sites that have not been modernized due to limited funding, and our goal was the make the site more user friendly through the information architecture of the site, i.e. organization, labeling, search, and navigation.
If you’re like me and feel like there’s too much to learn, to catch up on, to know, so that we can be an ally for marginalized communities and ideas – then I’m going to recommend Blinkist. I’ve used it for years for business books, but I’m finding myself exploring other genres and domains regularly.…
This was taken during the COVID lockdown when fun was uncommon and fear ran rampant throughout the galaxy.
For: Kent State University, UX Masters Program Role: Student, UX Lead When: Spring 2020 Summary In this hypothetical scenario, PapaJohn’s has hired our design team to research the usability of their desktop ordering interface. Skills Applied Screener Questionaire Usability Scenarios Usability Tasks Remote Interviews Recording Forensics Interview Synthesis Quantitative Tasks Analysis Executive Communitcation Problem In…
I, along with about 10 million of my friends, logged in to Disney+ for the first time yesterday. Excited both by the shiny new app, and also by one of the most beloved collections of content ever known to man, I was one of the crazies who opted to pay for 3 years of the…
In this academic scenario I was asked to design a streaming media services interface, aka a 10 Ft Interface. The client asked for two sample views that demonstrated how the Interface Design and remote control design would optimize usability.
Our final week of Module 3: Visual Design and the final week of this course had us studying Aesthetics. We began the week with an overview of a variety of design principles like color, layers, transparency, textures, patterns, and contrast and how they are all defined and used in creating a cohesive, immersive, enjoyable design.…
My first end to end UX design project was to focused on a productivity app for to-dos and reminders. The project included user interviews, workflows, wireframes, and an interactive prototype.
Week 6 has been focused on typography. I’ve never been as consciously uncertain about every text formatting decision I’ve made as I was this week. Starting to learn about how text should be used, while you’re still not an expert is fairly disconcerting. However, after this week’s assignment, I feel a bit more competent in…