BSc User Experience Design Blog
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Low-Fidelity Wireframing & Brand
This week, I shifted my focus to converting my wireframe sketches into a partially prototyped low-fidelity wireframe on Figma. The main goal was to figure out the layout of the main four pages accessed from the navigation, and the navigation menu itself.
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Greg Quinton Talk
On Wednesday 1st November, author of the updated edition of A Smile in the Mind Greg Quinton visited NUA to give a talk on his work, his process and his involvement in A Smile in the Mind.
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Figma Components, Variants & Variables Workshop
This workshop covered some of the more advanced features of Figma, starting with Components & Variants and then progressing on to variables.
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Creating an Experience & Wire-framing
This week I have expanded my visual research and developed my experience further, by giving it more structure with a clear user flow and tier options.
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HTML Workshop: CSS & JavaScript
Building on the first HTML workshop, this session introduced more complex uses of CSS, with animations, and some Javascript to enable interaction.
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Project 3: Initial Ideas & Research
I started project 3 by brainstorming ideas on paper with mind maps and lists, to decide which theme and which audience to choose.
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Figma Website Workshop
This workshop covered pixel densities, layout grids and wireframes, and then involved following a tutorial to build a high-fidelity website design.
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Design Recommendations: Redesign
Following on from my low-fidelity prototype, I finished redesigning a part of the AXS website with the goal of simplifying the user experience.
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Design Recommendations: Research & Ideas
In response to points of friction identified in my user testing, I am starting to consider how I can redesign a part of my site in Figma.
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Figma & HTML Workshops
Workshops this week introduced Figma and HTML, covering the design side of websites as well as a basic understanding of how the front-end is coded.
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User Testing
I conducted five user tests of AXS, where users were instructed to purchase a pair of Take That concert tickets for any UK date, with a budget of their choice, in a seated section.
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Project 2: Evaluative Research
This week focused on starting Project 2 with user flows, design principle annotations and a site map with heuristic markup.