Tag: Learning
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UX education that feels like you're at work
One of the biggest changes I made to my UX course last year was asking students to submit their assignments directly in Figma by a set deadline. Over the last seven years of teaching, I’ve become increasingly aware of what impacts students’ engagement and how instructors can pull on different behavioral and cognitive levers to…
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When the Steps Don’t Match the Beat
If you’re designing a learning experience and it seems like the participants are still not getting it, you might be suffering from the curse of knowledge. In a dance class this week, the instructor expressed something that turned on a few lightbulbs among the students: the steps are not the same as the beat. So…
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Embracing problem-creator thinking in design education
Because most generative AI tools today are solutions oriented, it’s more important than ever that design students be able to think critically and analyze broader contexts. This will both help them continue to have value in an AI-driven world and ensure we don’t lose out on innovative solutions that come from more exploratory problem-assessing approaches. …
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In my class, you surf alone and get feedback together
Every year, I try to refine the intentions of the 6 month UX certificate I teach. This experience has been incredibly educational for me in understanding how people extract information from what is presented to them. My intentions as an instructor can be interpreted in a plethora of ways that are outside my control. To…
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How we learn is changing. Why am I worried?
I’m deeply worried about the future of learning, but I can’t put my finger on why. For a while it was because of all the noise coming from the media and technology. It divided the population and created a sea of information that’s difficult to validate. Later, I started to become concerned with all the…