Designing Products, Experiences, and Marketing
For: Kent State University, UX Masters Program Role: Student, UX Lead When: Fall 2019 Summary This project required us to come up with a new app idea and create a working prototype. I decided that the market needed a better way for gamers to find friends that they would enjoy playing with based on more…
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.
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…
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…
Here’s what I learned in Week 5 of my Principles of User Experience Design course.
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…
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…