Happy Star Wars Day!
This was taken during the COVID lockdown when fun was uncommon and fear ran rampant throughout the galaxy.
Designing Products, Experiences, and Marketing
Author: sethmsparks
PapaJohn’s Usability Study (Portfolio Piece)
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…
The Disney+ Launch Experience is Too Basic for 2020
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…
10 Ft Interface, Streaming Media (Portfolio Piece)
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.
My UXD Principles and Concepts Notes – Week 7
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.…
Productivity App – Reminder X (Portfolio Piece)
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.
My UXD Principles and Concepts Notes – Week 6
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…
My UXD Principles and Concepts Notes – Week 5
Here’s what I learned in Week 5 of my Principles of User Experience Design course.
My UXD Principles and Concepts Notes – Week 4
This week’s assignment was to create a flowchart for the user process of performing a mortgage insurance inspection. Creating the flow chart itself was difficult because I anticipated a lot of individual steps for the user based on all of the document they need to collect. I’m hoping that I went about it correctly, so…
My UXD Principles and Concepts Notes – Week 3
I really enjoyed this week’s readings. I’ve always found work that studies how our brains operate fascinating and reading about how memory works has been no different. I constantly feel like I should be memorizing both of the books that we’re reading. I do plan on spending some time trying to memorize Norman’s section on…