Month
February 2022
Typography (Micro and Macro) This week was all about typography, on both a micro and macro level. During this lecture, Kyle told us about the best way to produce web-friendly content. We were also given advice on choosing typefaces,… Continue Reading →
Laws of UX Research After learning about Posel’s law this week, I was interested to find out about more laws of UX. I went to the Laws of UX website to do this, and looked through a few that intrigued… Continue Reading →
Neilson Norman Group Paul suggested that we take a few minutes to check out the NNG article about chunking as we went over that concept briefly this week. I am going to summarise what I read within this article, and… Continue Reading →
Research Techniques This week we learnt about research techniques. These included the basics of user research, as well as competitor analysis. Paul spoke about the importance of researching, and different methods we might use within the researching phase of a… Continue Reading →
Cindy Chastain – Thinking Like a Storyteller I saw Kyle had suggested that we watched this talk by Cindy Chastain in order to help us think like storytellers for this module, so I decided to give it a watch and… Continue Reading →
Creating a Moodboard To begin our research, we were asked to create a moodboard including some imagery that we found from different media sources. I found this exercise to be educational and interesting. I already have an idea of the… Continue Reading →
Group Research To begin our research into healthcare and UX, Paul split us into groups and asked us to create a blog or space to compile our research on collectively. This is a good way to get lots of research… Continue Reading →
Narrative & Storytelling This week Kyle gave us an introduction to our new module, and broke it down for us. We were told deadlines, how much each deliverable is worth, and what exactly we will be producing for each… Continue Reading →
Researching Design Models This week, Paul wants us to have a look at some design models in order to aid our process for the new project. Design Council Double Diamond The first model we were asked to look… Continue Reading →