Tag: UX
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My Experience in Designing a Course in UX
👀 This article originally appeared on Concordia University’s blog. This past summer, I worked closely with Concordia Continuing Education (CCE) as a subject matter expert to develop a user experience (UX) design program. As someone who is passionate about finding patterns, I immediately started looking for parallels between designing courses and designing products. To give…
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People with Unconventional Backgrounds Can Find Success in UX
👀 This article originally appeared on Concordia University’s blog. Without any formal training in user experience (UX) design, I landed a job designing a platform for a business that brings in hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual revenue. Following this opportunity, I was accepted into a prestigious design school. In any other industry, this…
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An introduction to UX for non-designers
Last week I gave a talk at Concordia University explaining what UX is and what it takes to start building a career in this field. There were over 100 attendees who had questions about accessibility, ethics in design, and many other important discssions. You can watch the talk here: I’ll keep this post short as…
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Learning how to structure a virtual class
My online lecture on Creativity, Innovation, and Critical Thinking has more than 90 students enrolled this semester. Even before COVID-19, I was constantly searching for new ways to keep the class experiential for such a large group of students. When the university announced last year that the course would be online, I had to revise…
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Let go of anchoring bias to build more effective products
Last week, I tried a new video conferencing tool called Around created by a startup with the same name. Having recently raised $15 million in funding, their big claim is that their product can eliminate Zoom fatigue, the newly coined term for exhaustion caused by too much time spent on video calls. Screenshot of around.co…