What is the best UX/HCI/interaction design school?
SO YOU’RE TRYING TO FIND A SOLID PLACE TO STUDY UX DESIGN— HERE’S A CHECKLIST I’ll cut right to the chase: the “best” UX design or HCI degree, bootcamp, or …
Where should I go to learn UX design?
SO YOU’RE READY TO LEAP INTO STUDYING UX… You’re intrigued by User Experience design, Interaction Design and/or Human-Computer Interaction. Now where to get started and get some credentials? If you haven’t …
Meetings by Design
Some things are inevitable: death, taxes…and meetings. This is an excerpt from a lecture I did in the Design Storytelling course I created/taught at Carnegie Mellon University:
The evolving UX education and practitioner
How can you be sure that your design education proves timeless? The world of UX (and the acronym didn’t even exist when I was in grad school!) is constantly shifting and evolving. …
From People to Product – User Experience Design Fundamentals Pt 3
In this workshop we discussed the fundamentals of applying what you’ve learned about people to your product including: How do you collect the information you get from your customers? How do …
Talking to People: User Experience Design Fundamentals Pt 2
In this workshop we discussed the fundamentals of Talking to Users including: Why should talk to customers? When should you talk to customers? What are some methods and best practices for talking to customers? …
Users and Goals: User Experience Design Fundamentals Pt 1
My wonderful colleague, Meghan Deutscher, and I recently volunteered to teach a three part User Experience Design Fundamentals workshop at Vancouver’s startup hub, Launch Academy. In this first workshop we …
Fast UX: User observation in a museum – Class 11
After last week’s introduction to user observation, this week I moved us over to our client site at Science World to practice further. Earlier in the week, Science World staff …
Fast UX: User Observation – Class 10
Following hot on the heels of empathy, my next class was designed to dig a bit into guerrilla user research techniques. Personally, I’m a big fan of hallway tests or interviews, …
Fast UX: Going method with empathy – Class 9
This class project is one of my favorites; one that I wished I did back in grad school. But back then, all we got was the same anecdote about industrial designer …