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The last week of my first class has come and gone! This week was focused on user personas and I kind of struggled trying to come up with a layout that I liked and ultimately settled on something slightly out of the ordinary in my opinion. I think it was eye catching and portrayed theContinue reading “Week 7.”

This week was focused on creating a type system. It was the first time I had really focused on how all the different type would look and blend together on one page. When you break it down and see it from the hierarchy of top to bottom or from what is more important to grabContinue reading “Week 6.”

Searching through the web looking for good and bad examples of webpages that followed the design principles we learned about this week was a fun and helpful exercise. I never really pay attention to those kinds of things so when we had to really look at it this week it was very eye opening. IContinue reading “Week 5.”

I really enjoy searching through Pinterest looking for this for my UX board. I have even found some that I have created myself that I found helpful from instagram. I need to find a better balance of my work and school to try and get a better mindset and get back into the flow ofContinue reading “Week 3.”

This weeks reading was great. I have actually had both of Don Norman’s books since my undergrad but for some reason I hardly ever touched them. In hindsight, it probably would have been much more helpful to read it when I was still so new to design. Even now though it is very helpful andContinue reading “Week 2.”

This week was my first week doing some flowchart work and it was a great learning experience. I had never done anything like it other than some random brainstorming for other design projects. It was a fun and good exercise for me to fully think through how someone would progress through a web application. IContinue reading “Week 4.”

Week one has come and gone in a flash. It seemed to go by faster for me due to some clerical issues with enrollment not allowing me to start until mid-week, but I made it! So far, there isn’t much to speak about on this UX journey. The main thing that stuck with me thisContinue reading “Week 1.”