This is a collection of work done in Mike Scott's UX design class, Fall 2017. There are article responses, lecture responses, as well as samples of ongoing work. Posts can be sorted using the tags.
Sketch assignment number one
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At the beginning of the semester, we were asked to complete some sketching exercises. The first was to draw 10 methods for phones to share files. They were not required to be realistic or feasible.
Click here for article The metrics Google created for its designers to use as a guideline, HEART, is part of what makes the Google suite so powerful and pervasive. The goal of the rubric is to build a system that is more effective at carrying out its intended purpose[Task success] thereby satisfying a user[Happiness] as well as encouraging them to want to use it more often[Engagement], become loyal to it[Adoption], and to continue to use it[Retention]. The result of this is the Google suite that has become standard for school systems, workplaces, and personal affairs. I have not used Microsoft office since my sophomore year of highschool, mainly because using Google Drive is simply easier and more convenient; I can access whatever I'm working on from any computer or smartphone that has an internet connection. The Google suite is simple and nearly seamless to use, and upon finding their rubric for product development, how they achieved this product makes mo...
The article this post is responding to is no longer able to be found, so the hyper-link has been removed to avoid confusion. The article raises some interesting points if you look past the all too common concerns about internet addiction, namely is there a responsibility to avoid falling into 'Dark UX'? The idea of dark UX is that people who know certain design tricks such as making specific buttons larger, or changing an animation to make scrolling smoother (i.e. UX designers) can use these tricks to make using an app more mindless and... well addictive is really the only word that comes to mind. The final parts of the article discuss the role of the UX designer: should there be a sort of expectation to do no harm? Or should it just be accepted that as they are contractors, they will do what the client asks? I think that a pseudo Hippocratic oath for UX designers is a nice idea, but not entirely practical. The job of a UX designer is to make an experi...
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