Tools & Techniques

What does an information experience design toolkit look like? Posts in this category describe, analyze, critique, and/or discuss emerging or established tools, techniques, methods, and approaches that inform or facilitate the design of great experiences.

Transforming OnePratt into a connected digital ecosystem

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OnePratt is Pratt Institute’s centralized digital portal for academic, administrative, and campus resources. Over six weeks, our team conducted usability testing with students and staff to understand how users navigate the platform and complete key workflows. What began as an information architecture evaluation evolved into a deeper exploration of search, discoverability, and task completion, leading to recommendations that transform OnePratt from a collection of disconnected tools into a more connected and user-centered ecosystem.

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Loading in UX Design

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Loading can be understood as progress indicators for data presentation in the Internet environment. And it is also a state of visible feedback triggered when user interacts with media. Good loading design can reduce user’s uncertainty and perception of time. The Logic of Loading Data is presented to users through a series of complex flows.

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The Yin to your Yang: Gen-Synth Pair Design

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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

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Contextual Inquiry – Understanding your users in their environment

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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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Blurry-eye Test

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While people using chunking strategy based on “context” to percept information, reading not-interested content can be painful for a user. For those who have a visual deficiency and for those who have a reading disorder or language barrier, it would be quite challenging to understand how to interact with a site if the navigation and

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Participatory design, help your stakeholders better define and scope their business

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It is always easy to come out with an idea and share it with the team, but not every person is able to understand it and consider it as a business opportunity due to their background and knowledge. How do you make sure your ideas will fit into their business? Well, it is the time

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