BSc User Experience Design Blog
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Value Proposition Canvas & Project 5 Wireframing
In the first week of the Spring term, I focused on completing the Value Proposition Canvas to wrap up Project 4 and help plan the design, structure and content of my app for Project 5.
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Sian Wong – Tommy Design
Graduating NUA in 2021 from Graphic Communication, Sian Wong delivered a talk on her work over the past several years at Creative Production Agency Tommy. Sian began her career as a Junior Designer, progressing to an Associate Art Director, and now works as a Mid-weight Creative.
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Expert Interview, Personas & Empathy Maps
In the final week of term, I conducted my Expert Interview and focused on completing the majority of Project 4, including an Opportunity Solution Tree, Provisional Personas, and Empathy Maps.
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Magpie Studio
On 13th December, Katherine West & Lily West from Magpie studio visited NUA to speak about their work at Magpie and their journeys from graduating university to working in a studio like Magpie. Much of their talk focused on their journeys though, and was full of helpful advice to us as students.
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User & Expert Interviews
At the start of this week I set out to finish Project 4 this week. While I didn’t manage to achieve that, I am pleased with the amount of progress I have made this week and I feel good about the pacing and the trajectory of the project.
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Andy Larkin – Talk
Andy Larkin’s visit to NUA was extremely insightful and useful, with the opportunity to share our projects with him after his lecture/presentation beforehand.
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Domain, Statistical & Competitor Research
Although there was no studio teaching this week due to it being Interchange, I made a good amount of Progress with project 4. I completed my domain research into problem spaces, and wrote a problem statement which helped me focus the next stages of the project.
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Sync the City 2023
From 23rd – 25th November, I participated in the Sync the City 2023 event in Norwich. It was a really great experience to be part of – I met and worked with such a diverse range of people from different industries, ages and backgrounds. I even ended up on a winning team!
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Project 4: Introduction & Research
Having mostly finished Project 3, this week I came back to Project 4. I started it in Week 5 with the group workshop task, and intended to revisit it sooner but I chose to allocate most of my time to Project 3 instead. I started my research by looking at the UN Sustainable Development goals,…
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Virtual Reality Workshop
On Tuesday this week, we had a Virtual Reality workshop in the Creative Tech Lab. We were introduced to the Meta Quest 2 headset and started off in pass-through mode to create a boundary within the space.
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High-Fidelity Prototyping for Mobile & Desktop
This week I finished my high fidelity mobile prototype of my experience, created a low-fidelity wireframe for desktop and mostly completed the high-fidelity prototype for desktop too.
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Rethinking my Experience & Moving into High-Fidelity
I fairly drastically altered my project this week and rethought my ideas – and although this gave me a lot of extra work to do, it paid off and I am much happier with the state of my project and prototypes now.