Category IXD303
Empathy and Site Map In order to design my healthcare app to be designed for real people, I need to gain an understanding of the users, and how I can make the app be as easy to move through as… Continue Reading →
User Personas Now that I have finally decided on a project direction, and have some solid user research, it’s time to deepen my understanding of the users that I am designing this product for. User personas are a great way… Continue Reading →
Conducting a Survey I have found that, with little time and access to do interviews, surveys on Google Forms has been able to supply me with both qualitative and quantitative data. This is why I decided to conduct my user… Continue Reading →
Conducting Some Competitor Analyses Before I start to plan my project, it’s good practise to conduct a competitor analysis and see what other related apps are doing. I downloaded a few different IBS apps to have a look at. These… Continue Reading →
Researching my Chosen Topic Now that I have a solid idea of what topic I am going to base my healthcare app on, I need to do some research on IBS in order to fully understand the condition that I… Continue Reading →
The Design Sprint Paul started this week’s lecture by briefly explaining what a design sprint is, as well as showing us a video of The Google Ventures Design Sprint. We were also given the website to look to, in case… Continue Reading →
Changing my Idea, and Re-Framing my Design Question After some thinking, I have decided to change the direction that my project is going in. I realised that making an app for first-time parents turn out to be more of an… Continue Reading →
Reading “Steal Like an Artist” by Austin Kleon I was bored after work and decided to pick up a book I bought ages ago and give it a read. I read the entire thing in one sitting – I was… Continue Reading →
Content Design This week we learnt all about content design. The first thing we were told is that everything is content, and content underpins everything. Paul then went on to teach us about the different forms of content, as well as… Continue Reading →
PlantCo After our lecture this week, we were split into groups to design an app for the PlantCo Smart Plant Pot. The Brief As a companion for the smart plant pot, you are required to design a smartphone application… Continue Reading →