This team worked out their overall flow/architecture on the whiteboard first. They then moved over to paper, repurposing some transparent nametag holders (you know the kind, you get them at conferences with a lanyard attached) to create product ov…
This group of students started out by creating their screen template on the computer so they could print it out. After I teased them for not being very paper-based, they then surprised me by incorporating popsicle sticks into their kiosk prototype…
In the so-called Real World, we designers sometimes find ourselves stepping a bit outside of the realm of design and more into the shoes of an analyst. To use an analogy, we need to untangle a bunch of knots to be able to proceed. Knots like figur…
Last week was Reading Week (the Canadian version of Spring Break?) which should have given me some extra time to post up the latest happenings in class, but alas, it was not to be. We’ve moved onto the second project of the course which focuses on…
It’s been an extremely busy week so this one will be short and sweet. While I didn’t conduct usability testing on the site myself, I did do a fairly thorough analysis of the NOWBC site and looked at the entry experience, as well as the critical pa…
This week, my students spent planning their usability tests for our ‘client’, NOWBC, a local co-op that has an online farmer’s market. The idea is to discover what are the main stumbling blocks or areas of confusion in signing up and using the ser…
Yesterday, we spent part of the class discussing the field trips we took last week to “offline” (you know you’re a geek when you always want to refer to this as IRL) bricks and mortar grocers. Having spent a couple of hours taking a good hard look…
So the first class project I created focuses on user research & usability testing. I had originally scoped out Home Depot as our first ‘client’ to conduct usability testing on — in particular, I was curious how the online/offline (clicks vs brick…
I’ve been thinking about my dream User Experience book/course/lecture that I would teach for many years now. I’d like to believe that I’ve channeled all of my regrets from my own educational experiences into something positive. Basically in the co…
For the past couple of years, I’ve been on a panel at a yearly XX Evening event put on by the Society of Canadian Women in Science, Engineering and Technology. Following the event, I’m assigned a little corner where I answer questions. Usually the…
