Designer UI Portfolio
UI/UX Role Interview Preparation Check out this link and this link for the full YouTube videos that I watched to come to these conclusions. So. The semester comes to a close, and this might be the final post! I wanted to leave with ideas of how to move from design thinking into a design career, …
User Testing Reference material: The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman, Chapter 5 Chapter five of The Design of Everyday Things opens up by criticizing the idea of assigning blame to “human error.” Norman claims that workplace accidents, when ruled as “human error,” are never truly the fault of the humans. Sometimes the workers …
Creativity Presentation Zen, Garr Reynolds, Chapters 2 and 4 Chapter 2 leads with a focus on one word: Creativity. Creativity is complex. It is inspiration and a certain fearlessness of unrestrained thought. It is a way of seeing and interpreting the world that is not only unique and stylized to an individual but is also …
How to Give Designers Feedback https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/give-designers-feedback/ For as long as I’ve been in positions of leadership or learning how to do leadership in my education, I’ve heard theories and ideas on how to help make a team better. The idea of the feedback “sandwich”, in which feedback takes the shape of positive feedback then negative …
Design Systems: a ruleset for how to approach creating a style for your website. So, a “ruleset” may not be the right term for this. The three articles that this post discusses focuses on Spacing, Grids, and Layouts; Typography; and Content Strategy. There are no true “rules” for what works and what does not. However, …
Values Source: https://blog.colinbreck.com/understanding-our-core-values-an-exercise-for-individuals-and-teams/ Before I start: I did the exercise. I identified my two core values as Harmony and Efficiency. I’ll explore these a bit later and explain what they mean to me and why. However, I do want to discuss why I disagree with Colin’s sentiment that this exercise is 100% helpful on an …
Color Harmony: Intro to Color Theory Though this section was mostly a primer on color theory concept definitions, one concept that was briefly touched on was the idea of synesthesia. The text mentioned a Wassily Kandinsky, an abstract artist, that heard the sound of musical instruments when he painted. He seemed to associate brighter colors …
Presentation Zen: Fine Art Composition The author of Presentation Zen, Garr Reynolds, has much to say on general rules of design that should be followed when developing graphics. Though much of his instruction is regarding slide decks, these principles can easily be followed by any website or user interface designer. Some of the key concepts …
Thoughts on the Shneiderman PDF and how data types relate to my experience in data science The Shneiderman paper discussed some interesting concepts in regards how to visually approach different data types. The seven basic data types listed are: 1-dimensional, 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional, temporal, multi-dimensional, tree, and network. There are specific ways that designers have figured …
Affordances and Signifiers II: The Design of Everyday Things In my previous post, I discussed the concept of routine and familiarity affecting intentional design in some capacity. The second chapter of The Design of Everyday Things discusses a concept that can explain human predisposition toward routine. According to the author, three levels of processing in …