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Study + parenthood = zzzzzzzzz
Week 3 finished with our Project 2 presentations which I was fairly pleased with although I can already see many improvements which could be made. Case study to come over the weekend and I’d love some feedback and thoughts. There’s … Continue reading
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Project 1 case study: make.do
Brief Working in pairs, design a rough interactive paper prototype to address a common problem in your partner’s life. Sebastian’s problem (concept map and storyboard) My partner was Sebastian. We sat down and I got to know him a bit better … Continue reading
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Tagged app, apps, career change, general assembly, prototype, sketching, user experience, user research, user testing, ux
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Project 1 & Participatory Design
Today we’ve been learning about participatory design as part of our first project. The brief for the project is: Working in pairs, design a rough interactive paper prototype to address a common problem in your partner’s life. Yesterday we dived … Continue reading
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Day 1 @GA UXDi
The first day was pretty good! This is me, giving the first student introduction presentation. Good thing I like talking about myself! Much of the morning was taken up by the intro presentations and then general housekeeping, but in the … Continue reading
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What I’m reading: “About Face 3” by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin
As part of the pre-work for GA, we are required to read the first couple of chapters of “About Face” (version 3). I’m about a third of the way through. It’s quite a wordy tome and personally I prefer this … Continue reading
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Studying again…
Good news, I’m starting the General Assembly UXDI in er, one week! I think I must have snuck into this cohort quite late in the day, which is good because it means I can start soon and be finished by … Continue reading
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General Assembly UXDI
For the past couple of months I’ve been searching for UX courses to help me transition into the field. I’ve looked at some short courses, masters degrees in Human Computer Interaction at UCL and City University and the General Assembly bootcamp … Continue reading
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From CS to UX
This is a blog about changing careers at 30…ish. For my entire adult working life I’ve worked in Client Services in various different agencies. It’s been a pretty good ride and I’ve worked with some amazing people and had some … Continue reading
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