App Design Process: Style Tile
style tile for LastFall (This style tile is inspired by the work of Saul Bass, Art Goodman and Dave Nagata. Hitchcock typeface by Matt Terich. Tumblr theme by Matthew Buchanan.) When I went to get a...
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Taskflow1 Using tips from this article entitled “10 simple ways to make wireframes more useful”– I added color to keep track of what specific part of the task my user was at– I made these wireframes...
View ArticleResponsive Design Trends: Responsinator and RWD Bookmarklet
responsinator vs. screenshot in Safari Browser (this is a snapshot of erskinedesign.com) As part of my last assignment in Web Design Bootcamp, we are to take a snapshot of Responsive Websites in the...
View ArticleResponsive Design Trends: Research on Education Websites
Screen shots of responsive web design. Research summer 2012 education. As my last assignment in Web Design Bootcamp, we are to take a snapshot of Responsive Websites in the Summer of 2012. (What is...
View ArticleTrick Out Your Browser and Other Things
School is back in session which means a lot of resetting up shop. Each time I arrive at a new workspace, I should have a “home” day, where I change the preferences on everything so it feels like home....
View ArticleDesigning Cool, A talk at InfoCamp Seattle, 2012
Session 2, Aaron Louie @ajlouie Saturday at InfoCamp, Aaron Louie asked his audience what is “cool?” People ask designers all the time, “make it cooler?” Or in the case of Seattle Central’s Marc...
View ArticleWhat is the role of a UX designer?
Talk by Jay Al Hashal @objectivejay Today, Jay Al Hashal talked to the class about the role of a UX designer. The Designer is a storyteller. These days stories are transmedial. We consume messages,...
View ArticleDesign Management, A talk at InfoCamp Seattle, 2012
Session 6, Lorelei Kelly @ielarol Sunday at InfoCamp, Lorelei Kelly, an interactive designer led the discussion of the problems and solutions that comes with managing designers. Coordinating and...
View ArticleStorytelling and Mobile, A talk at InfoCamp Seattle, 2012
A still from Charles and Ray Eame’s Video The Powers of Ten Session 7, NamHo Park @namho Sunday at InfoCamp, Namho Park shared a beautiful presentation about communication technology. It’s a matter of...
View ArticleVolunteer Park Wayfinding Presentation
(Insert Presentation Here– I am planning on putting the presentation here as a slideshare when/if I get the files from my team.) Volunteer park sign structures based of the ratio of the doorway at the...
View ArticleJen Pearce’s Advice on Finding a Design Job You Love
(attribute needed) Today as a part of website design/business class, Jen Pearce, UX designer, came to tell us some valuable information. She worked at Microsoft, getting a contract through Aquent. She...
View ArticleCustomizable Scoreboard Device
On Friday, my Facebook status: “I designed an app that helps people familiarize themselves with the boarding process of an educational non-profit spacecraft that gives its riders two minutes of...
View ArticleWhiteboarding Interview for UX Designers
Rebecca Shapiro and I at our whiteboarding session Yesterday, my Interactive Design teacher, Erik Fadiman, organized a whiteboarding learning session for a little extra practice before graduation and...
View ArticleThe Game of Sound
This game inspired by Adventure Time and their reference to platformer games in a nonsensical happy irreverence. As a child, I used to make these games where you trace with your finger the track that...
View ArticleFirst iteration of the Sound Game
Here’s my style tile and layout for the first iteration of the game. I am spending less time in the “style” phase so I can get to some user testing and prototyping. The style is going to be more...
View ArticleUsers and Task Flow: Sound Game
Here’s my summary of my users for the Sound Game and a taskflow for someone who is playing the game. My next step is to use the style tile and create some screens for these tasks to make the...
View ArticleThe Sound Game- Beginning of animation
Music is Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0)stellarartwars / CC BY 3.0 Today, I started the beginning of the gameplay walkthrough of the Sound Game, working title: Rolling Riffs. First...
View ArticleSound Game Animation 2
I spent some time animating this next part. I am getting a sense of how AfterEffects works with this type of animation and it’s thrilling. The next iteration is going to be a lot more smooth and...
View ArticleDesign-thinking Workshop: Designing for a Healthcare Movement: How to Get to...
Design-thinking Workshop: Designing for a Healthcare Movement: How to Get to Minimum Viable Product Now — IxDA Seattle. As part of this year’s Seattle Design Festival: Design in Health, I attended a...
View ArticleDesigners at Hackathons: Eric Bell speaks at Infocamp Seattle 2013
Eric Bell (ericthebell) talked at InfoCamp 2013 about Hackthons and why they are awesome! Eric Bell is a designer, formerly Seattle-based, currently lives in SF and attends hackathons. During his talk,...
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