Tag: UX
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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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Navigating the Open Waters of an Early-Stage Product
I’ve been sharing videos and links to the tool we’re building called Flota. At the surface, it’s a new interface for instructors to create agendas. Yet our hope is to improve the experience of creating in-class sessions… So how do we know an agenda builder is the right place to start? This is the meta…
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Positive negatives
We need a word for experiences that are positive, but their undertones are negative. The situation that happened to me feels a little like this: I discovered a new song on Spotify that resonated super deeply with me through my Discover Weekly. Looking at the two collaborating artists, I thought to myself “Who are these…
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Why anyone can become a UX designer
👀 This article originally appeared on Concordia University’s blog. Are you interested in becoming a user experience (UX) designer? Or are you thinking about pivoting your career towards this field? As someone who studied marketing and started working in UX without any formal training, I can tell you that this is one of the most…