Category: User Research
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The Product Development Life Cycle
Every new product, whether it’s an app or a physical object, follows a specific set of steps that take it from the first spark of an idea to the release of the final product. This is called the product develpment life cycle, and it has five stages: brainstorm, define, design, test, and launch. Depending on…
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Portfolio Project For Local Donut Shop
Looking back in April 2021, I decided to join the Google UX Cetificate grogram on Coursea. I have completed a major milestone in having my first UX project for the course to showcase. In this post, I will walk you through the process that I personally experience and share what I would do differently, if…
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Google UX Design Certificate vs CCA BFA, Interaction Design
Right before the year end and the start of the new year 2022, I finished both Google UX Design Certificate and California Institute of the Arts (cal ARTS) UI/UX Design Specialization. Prior to that, I enrolled with California College of the Arts for BFA, Interaction Design in the Fall of 2020 and later dropped out.…
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Career in User Experience Design
UX design is a rapidly changing field with a projected 10-year growth rate of 15% (Burning Glass). When you do the job search, you’ll find tens of thousands of job postings for UX-related roles. Recruiters around the world are struggling to fill open positions for UX designers because the demand for people with these skills…
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Best Practices for Crazy Eights
Crazy eights is a popular design ideation exercise intended to help you think of several ideas in record time. This is one of many possible ways to ideate. You’ll develop ideation methods that work best for you as you explore them over time. What’s important is to put your ideas on paper in a just…
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Come Up With Ideas For Your Webite
The ideation process is very important in the design work. We need to explore all possible solutions to the problem statement that our users face. To come up with ideas, we will be looking at two methods, How Might We or Crazy Eghts to generate initial ideas for your design. In this article, we’ll use…
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Create a User Story and User Journey Map
In this article, we’ll be focusing on how to create the user story, user’s journey and chart user’s pain points with a user journey map. A user story is a fictional one-sentence story told from a persona’s point of view. It should inspire and inform design decisions by prioritizing goals, uniting the team, inspiring empathic…
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Refine Your High-Fidelity Portfolio Project Designs
In this article, we will go through the process of updating your high-fidelity portfolio project prototype based on the most recent usability study results. The first part of the article will focus on which insights from your research you should incorporate into you design. In the second part of this article will focus on the…
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Analyze and Synthesize the Results of Usability Study
After comleting a usability study to test out your prototype, whether it is high/low-fidelity prototype designs, it is time to put things together. This article will help you apply research synthesis skills and thake the feedback from the usability study and generate actionable design tasks. 1. Review your notes Open the note-taking during the usability…
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