About the Project We were tasked with completely redesigning the Intrepid Museum’s website. After some research, we found the current site to be severely lacking in its ability to be aesthetically pleasing while providing users with easy access to information. My Role One of the main roles I took on in the group was as […]
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For over fifty years, the Queens Historical Society (QHS) has been actively celebrating and preserving the heritage and history of Queens, New York through educational programs, exhibitions, and its public repository of archival collections and sources. The QHS website is a key vehicle for communicating their mission to the widest audience possible, yet their message
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Queens Historical Society About the Project At the beginning of the semester we were broken up into groups and asked to tackle redesigning the Queens Historical Society website. In my group, each of us identify key issues within the website, these key issues helped us design a more friendly website using the following procedure.
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Our Client: Before Our task was to redesign the website for the Intrepid Air and Space Museum. We were told they were looking to appeal to New Yorkers and make their website more mobile-friendly, but we soon found they have many more problems. The Card Sort and Tree Test With our goal
QUEENS HISTORICAL SOCIETY SITE REDESIGN ABOUT THE PROJECT MAJR Queens was contracted to complete a user-centered redesign of the Queens Historical Society (QHS) website emphasizing an improved user experience and responsive, multi-platform design. The 4-month project generated several deliverables which supported efforts to understand users, structure content and design the final prototypes. –Jo Polanco, UX
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Design Story for the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Group: Arushi, Julie, Alexa, Krissy. The Challenge: Our group had the opportunity to reimagine a new website for the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Complex. The goal was to research users and analyze content to create a prototype we feel best serves the
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By Kristen Droesch & Lily Martin, Spring 2017 For our Advanced UX Design course, we were charged with developing and prototyping a new calendar system. We kicked off our project by selecting the user group we were most interested in designing for, eventually settling on arts and media freelancers. To boil down the essential needs
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I talked to Diana Sapanaro, UX Researcher and Strategist at SoundingBox. The conversation below has been paraphrased from a phone interview. Tell me a bit about the work that you do. How did you get started in this field? I went into library school thinking I was going to be an academic librarian, but I
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I sat down with Nadaleen Tempelman-Kluit, the Head of the NYU Libraries User Experience department, to discuss her work at NYU and the role UX design plays in her position. KD: Your background is in academic librarianship. How did your career path bring you to UX? NTK: Well, I’m still an academic librarian, so it
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I interviewed Iris Bierlein, a UX Specialist with the NYU Libraries UX department .We discussed her role as a UX researcher, and her interest in qualitative research in particular. KD: To what degree does your role as a UX Specialist allow you to commit time to research? IB: I’m the lead on the qualitative research,
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