Project management and teamwork

Organization is key to creating, working on, and completing any project especially in our field of User experience and HCI. Projects can’t be completed in a timely manner without project management, and that’s where project management software like asana is beneficial for anyone who needs to ensure every detail of the day, week, month are […]

Detox Data Project – Quitting snapchat for 5 days.

Social media, the glue that binds society together in the digital world. This week’s project involves a weeklong “detox” project quitting something you do on a daily basis in order to make more room and time for deep work. The main objective here is not only data collection and analysis, it is also a process […]

Deep work: A mindset for anywhere you work

We have all been there: There’s a test coming up, or homework to be done, bills need to be paid, or you have some last minute work projects that have to be completed asap and even though we feel the pressure to complete these tasks we pick up our phones and break our concentration. These moments […]

Deep work: Get it done.

In today’s society, we live at a fast pace consistently. Information is processed quickly and effectively (most of the time), we use drive throughs for our fast food, we exercise to move around in an hour to make up for not moving from our desks for the majority of the day. When it comes to […]

Understanding Your Audience

ICM514DE_20SP – Understanding Your Audience deals the foundation for design guidelines for designers need to create a product: The user. This is the part of the user experience process where users are front and center. Students learn to empathize with users, understanding that users are a crucial aspect in the design process and what we […]

Wastenofood.org Usability testing session

Today, I had 3 people participate in Wastenofood.org’s usability testing session. Their names are Indira, Frances, and Hilda. They were new users to the site and had no prior experience with it. The 3 sessions took 7-10 minutes in each and the tasks were successfully accomplished. Tasks: You want to contribute to the wastenofood cause. […]

Competitive Analysis: Where does your product stand in its industry?

With tons of UX methods out there, all specializing in different areas and aspects of UX design, it shows the versatility of data driven design and all the preliminary work that goes on before concepting and blue-sky ideation even begins when it comes to our profession. A Competitive Analysis is but one of many methods […]

THE UX CURVE: Long-term data and its effect on a product’s lifecycle

Part of user driven design is studying not only the immediate data and feedback a product has, but also long-term information. There are several reasons why this is valuable to not only designers, but to different departments such as development and executives. This curve helps guide a product into its next iteration, as well as […]

Concepts of User-Centered Design: Iterative design & Product lifecycles

With the ever-changing world of digital products evolving more and more, design has taken new meaning and form to accommodate product evolution. Iterative design is design thinking in progress. They are basically the same thing while design thinking also take things into account such as a product’s life cycle: from the moment a product is […]

User Journey Map: Exploring Reddit

An important part of user experience design is creating the user flow or journey. Every detail of the product is thought of including how a user can navigate it, the differing user state paths such as logged in/ logged out, and the overall experience users will have when using the app/website/product. This project is visualizing […]