This week’s portfolio assignment provided a unique opportunity to broaden my UX knowledge base by creating a professional website to… Read more Baby Steps.

The challenge of composing a design brief is brevity. The guidelines set forth in our course texts seem to call… Read more “He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.” – Abraham Lincoln

If there is one overriding lesson I’ve learned from this week’s design assessment, it is to know the capabilities and… Read more Design Assessments: Expect the Unexpected.

Preparing a design assessment seemed pretty straightforward at the outset: Purchase some post-its, sticky tabs, X-acto #11 refills, a new 18″ metal… Read more Designing screens is harder than it looks.

Please discuss how you feel about giving and receiving critique. Is there something that folks can do to make receiving… Read more How I feel about critique.

That is how I began each question when I started interviewing my target users this week. It was incredibly awkward… Read more “Um. So…”

In conjunction with my first assignment for User Experience in Practice, I downloaded an app called AnyList for the purposes… Read more (Almost) Any List

This week’s assignment is the culmination of everything I’ve learned so far this semester, displayed in one tidy little PDF… Read more Reflective Journaling – Week 7

I have always enjoyed perusing and playing with typefaces, but before this week I relied primarily on my own intuition… Read more Reflective Journaling – Week 6

Since we’ve been discussing how the visual elements of organization, layout, and composition apply to usable web design, I thought… Read more Reflective Journaling – Week 5