Year: 2021

Week 10- Proof of Concept & Initial Research This lecture was to help us create a solid idea for our digital product, by carrying out research including quantitative, qualitative, user research as well as carrying out a SWOT test. SWOT test What is it? A SWOT analysis is a strategic planning and management framework which…Continue Reading Week 10- Proof of Concept & Initial Research

Week 9- Pitching & Presenting Today in class we had a lecture on pitching and presenting, this lecture is to help us for when we will be pitching our own digital product idea. The lecture was helpful and we got some good tips and tricks to help us present the best pitch possible to sell…Continue Reading Week 9- Pitching & Presenting

Week 8- Ideas In today’s class we were introduced to a new mini project. This project is to show our pitch and presentation skills. This pitch involves us pitching an idea to a new digital product. This digital product can be anything such as: A website Native application for a phone, watch or tablet etc…Continue Reading Week 8- Ideas

Week 7- Guest Lecture Today we had a talk from a guest lecture, this was from Ronan Mckinless, he talked about things such as what its like to work in small company vs a larger one and what it is like working in the creative sector. He said that there is a tense relationship between…Continue Reading Week 7- Guest Lecture

Week 5-Proposal Reading This class was feedback for our CVs and was introduced to the book ‘A Project Guide to UX Design’ by Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler.   CV Feedback Daniel gave us feedback on our CVs to ensure they are industry ready and are fit for its purpose. Creating these CVs will help…Continue Reading Week 5-Cv Feedback & Proposal Reading

Week 12- Group Critique Elements Project In today’s class we got feedback for our digital products, Kyle looked at all of our products on the board in front of the rest of the class. The rest of the class gave us feedback on our products too. We did this by adding comments on a Miro…Continue Reading Week 12- Group Critique Elements Project

Week 10- The Art of the Pitch In today’s lecture we learnt how to deliver a good pitch and presentation and some tips and tricks to help us get through the presentation. To start every presentation should involve 3 things; a story, planning and be prepared. To start your presentation needs to have a story;…Continue Reading Week 10- The Art of the Pitch

Week 11- Feedback: Elements Story so Far In today’s class we got feedback for our Elements project from Kyle. This was helpful to get someone else to look at our work and tell us what they think as its hard to know what to improve when you’re the only one constantly looking at the work….Continue Reading Week 11- Feedback: Elements Story so Far

Week 9- Usability Testing In today’s class we had a lecture on usability testing, how do do it effectively and why we should carry it out for our digital products. For usability testing the key rule is to not make the interviewees think. What is usability testing? Usability testing refers to evaluating a product or…Continue Reading Week 9- Usability Testing

Week 8- Content Strategy, Design, & User Personas Today in class we had a lecture on content strategy, design and user personas. Content Strategy What is content strategy? Content strategy focuses on the planning, creation, delivery and governance of content. Content is more than words on a page it includes everything found on the platform…Continue Reading Week 8- Content Strategy, Design, & User Personas