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Usability Testing This week Kyle did a short lecture on usability testing; how to conduct a usability test, how to record it, and the rules for usability testing. Here are the things you should do while testing: Identify… Continue Reading →
Exploring & Choosing Typography Now that I have paper wireframes done, and a basis for my app, it’s time to start thinking about the visual grammar that’ll go into it. The right typography can speak for itself when used… Continue Reading →
Task Flow Diagram Now that I have created user personas, and understand my users’ needs, it is time to create a user flow diagram. A user flow diagram helps us understand the journey of our users through a site/app,… Continue Reading →
Elements Project Research After deciding that my target audience will be children aged 8-10, I wrote up a User Research Survey to collect data that will be useful for me moving forward with my design. I first created this survey… Continue Reading →
Conducting Competitor Analysis After conducting my user research, I decided to move on to some competitor analysis. I want my app to be an educational game that makes it fun for the children to learn about the periodic table…. Continue Reading →
Creating User Personas After conducting the user research for my Elements Project, and learning about user personas, I decided to attempt making some user personas to aid my design. I first made a persona for a young boy, and… Continue Reading →
Learning About Task Flows Since deciding that I want to create a user flow diagram, I needed to learn about how they work. I purchased “A Project Guide to UX Design” to read a chapter for IXD302, however, I knew… Continue Reading →
Content Strategy This week we learnt about content strategy and user personas. Within this lecture, we were taught about the basic principles of content strategy, as well as the craft of content strategy. We also went into learning about user… Continue Reading →
Final Feedback on the Site Now that we’ve started building our sites, Kyle asked us to have our home page, a case study page, and our about/contact pages finished to showcase in class this week. Feedback I received:… Continue Reading →
HTML & CSS This week we learnt about HTML, CSS, Webflow, and responsive web-design. I found this lecture to be quite interesting, and useful. I thought it was great to get a demonstration on how to use Webflow, as… Continue Reading →