Class 2 – How Can We Learn?
Week 2 – May 19 This week’s class discussion: Review cube exercise assignment Grading criteria: based on quality of thought; originality; design craftsmanship Consent forms Next week’s exercise About empathy + …
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Class 1 – What is Design?
Week 1 – May 12 This week’s class discussion: Rules of play + questions Release form What is Design? This week’s class activities: Sorting exercise – post images here Analog interfaces …
Introduction – Spacetime UX
Week 0 – May 5 Hello and welcome! This is meant to be a quick overview about how I’ve set things up for this class. This course is one of many …
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:
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 …
Good UX: Usability Test Planning – Class 4
This week, my students spent planning their usability tests for our client NOWBC, a local co-op that with an online farmer’s market. The idea is for the students to compare their client’s …
Good UX: Competitive Analysis + Analogous Domains – Class 3
Yesterday, we spent part of the class discussing the “offline” field trip we took last week to a bricks and mortar grocer, as well as the homework assignment of checking …
Good UX: Looking at The Whole Experience – Class 2
So the first segment of the course emphasizes “good” (read: ideal) user experience design. So what should you do when you have time and budget on your side? In this portion of the …