Category: Week #1

  • 1.4 Design For You

    1.4 Design For You

    Assignment: Solve your own problem. I have decided to build a mobile app to solve my gap. The reason for this is that my mobile device has all of the built in functionality that I need in order to address this problem: notifications, GPS/mapping, communication tools, network connectivity, always with me. Visual Expression User (most…

  • 1.3 Visual Expression I: The Basics

    1.3 Visual Expression I: The Basics

    Assignment: Draw a chair.

  • 1.2 Find the Gap

    1.2 Find the Gap

    Assignment: Make a list of 10 things in your day to day life that have second-rate UX. Raking the leaves: Why should I clean up after Mother Nature if she wants to be a litterbug? *Waiting for the school bus: Never comes on time in either snow, sleet, rain, or shine. Managing home networked devices…

  • 1.1 Good Design

    1.1 Good Design

    Assignment: Describe an artifact that you “love” and why you love it. I am a huge fan of a small piece of software called Synergy. Here’s a pretty good explanation of what it does: As someone who works in IT I spend a lot of time moving between devices and platforms. Before Synergy my desk…