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.
The discussed article can be found here This article was a writeup of a study done at Tufts university. I will admit that I skimmed much of it due to poor time management and necessary prioritization, but I did closely read the results. The results were focused on effective storyboarding techniques, and while the results were similar to what had been established in class, it was good to see written confirmation that our gut instinct was more or less correct. An effective storyboard briefly explains the problem and the proposed solution. It does not have extraneous detail, has enough frames to explain the idea but not enough to confuse, and will often have small bits of text to add more context and to clarify the situation. Discussion Questions: Would a video be an effective storyboard? Or would that be a different thing altogether? Is a storyboard a user experience in itself? As such, would making a successful one re...
Click here for article I thought that the name of the article (Metrics Versus Experience) was interesting simply because the first point of the article was "don't frame stuff as 'Metrics Versus Experience.'" The actual content of the article was a nice insight into something I am only barely aware of: the metrics used to analyze the success of a website or product. I have interacted with them in terms of Instagram(there is a feature that lets you see how many people have seen a post and how many people have interacted with a post, and how those numbers stack up against your other posts) and Google analytics(which lets you see where people who access your website are from and how they are getting to the site), but I have never had to use them to better execute a product. In Zhou's article, she talks about different ways to figure out which metrics you should actually track, and I liked the way she explained it because it's similar to the way I te...
Click here for the article The article focuses on FaceBook's personalization and the idea of 'dead end UX' The author has turned their FaceBook feed into effectively a news reader by unfollowing all of their friends. Now they are unable to undo this action, making Facebook unusable. The follow/unfollow feature of FaceBook is something my family and I have made great use of in the past year, with some unforseen consequences that are similar to those encountered by the author. Last election season, my mother unfollowed her mother because the daily unintentionally racist posting was becoming too much. A couple months later my great uncle died and my grandmother posted about about his death, which my mom obviously did not see. I had to call my mom to tell her so that she in turn could call my grandmother to give her condolences. If I hadn't done that, my mother would not have known about her uncle's death and would have ended up hurting my gr...
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