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:
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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 …
Good UX: Usability Test Findings – Class 5
It’s been an extremely busy week so this one will be short and sweet. I took a divide-and-conquer approach to user testing the NOWBC site: each team focused on different …
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 …