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Indeemo – A Tool for Conducting Diary Studies
With an easy-to-use mobile app for participants and a website for data analysis, Indeemo tried to create a more efficient and effective user experience for both parties involved.
The Yin to your Yang: Gen-Synth Pair Design
Creating good design solutions for a complex problem can be difficult for any designer alone. But today, designers are used to working collaboratively in large groups. Some designers work in bigger cross-functional groups for purposes like brainstorming, user research and design critiques while others work in smaller ones for purposes like wireframing, prototyping and front-end …
Contextual Inquiry – Understanding your users in their environment
Contextual inquiry is a semi-structured field interview method conducted to obtain information about the context of use of any service or product. The participants are interviewed one at a time in their natural environment, while they perform their daily tasks to show how they use the product or service. As the users are interviewed in …
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Design Critique: PMC MicroMarket(7 Th. Floor)
Introduction Since my first day at Pratt Manhattan Center, I’ve became a heavy user of the MicroMarket in our building. The market locates on the 7th floor of Pratt Manhattan Center , aiming to provide Pratt students with fresh snacks and beverages with self-checkout technology. By linking technology to users’ everyday activities, the MicroMarket has …
Understanding UX Concepts by Games
Introduction UX designers play an essential role in a team. We confront a situation that developers control the universe. How can we transition their developer-centered approach design to a user-centered approach? How can UX designers better communicate and express UX concepts? Games can teach us UX concepts that improve productivity, taking the UX concept – …
Participatory Design: What makes it so useful?
Introduction Participatory Design, also known as co-design or co-operative design is a creative approach that attempts to actively involve the stakeholders and end-users in the design process to ensure that the eventual solution meets their needs and is usable. In cases where the users feel that the products they use force them to adapt to …
Using Origami As A Tool For Design Thinking
I heard about the technique of using origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, for design thinking from Daniel Stillman, who is the author of the book The 30 Second Elephant and The Paper Airplane Experiment. I attended one of his workshops on facilitating a workshop at a meetup event hosted by DesignSprint NYC. Nowadays …
Don’t Hurt My Feelings: Round Robin
Round robin is a tool used to refine and develop rough ideas into concepts as a team. It is best used in the later stages of the ideation stage of design. Round Robin lets design teams and stakeholders leave their egos at the door and encourages productive debate. Who Should Use it? This tool is …
Design Critique: AdBlock (Google Chrome Extension)
About AdBlock AdBlock is an open source browser extension for blocking intrusive or distracting ads on websites. It is inconspicuous in the browsing experience but has a powerful impact, with the ability to block banner ads, pop-ups, and video ads. This extension has been my ad blocker of choice for close to a decade because …
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