This is part of the Google project. I want to look at my own phone use, and the first part of that is defining HOW I use my phone, and some of the reason behind my choices. I’m hoping this will deal with some of my own assumptions about the way others use their devices. …
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Formulating my reason
Where I try to figure out my WHY as a UX designer.
EmoSpotter: a case study
BACKGROUND Empathy is a difficult thing to foster in children. There are a range of theoretical methodologies that can be applied to how children learn to be empathetic. Some would say “My child is naturally empathetic.” Others would say that empathy is learned through socialisation at pre-school. Regardless of how it is developed, it is …
My Shoes 2: revised story
I need to change the story, so after talking to some kids, this is the new narrative. One week. One student (YOU, always called you, removes the need for gendered stuff). Task: Look after one of the following for a week: RobotPuppyAnother kid Mrs Tui has set the class an assignment. You have to pick …
My Shoes, some thoughts as we go on.
I haven’t blogged about this over the last week and a half for a variety of reasons, mostly that I have been trying to get my head around the narrative journey and the complexity of dealing with the multiple choices options, and the resulting impacts on the money count, the social impact and the emotions. …
Refining the concept & narrative outline
Yesterday, what I blurted out feels like a mess. But today, I’ve refined that mess into something more logical, and hopefully actionable. It goes like this Story overview/Plot Kumera Springs Intermediate (D9) is in the fictional town of Kumera Springs. Mrs. Tui has set her Year 5 class an assignment where all students start off …
Check your Privilege…My Shoes? This name issue
So, I’ve devised a pretty rough work plan… DISCOVER Find academic articles relating to the following: Game design for kids 8-12Examples of poverty awareness in digital spaceChild poverty in nzHow to foster empathy in childrenGames about social wellbeingWeb design for childrenEcho chamberDigital magicDiscovery researchDo a Lit review DEVELOP 3-4 different child narrativesList of visual elements …
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Dealing with the wealth divide…digital and real poverty
Project 3 Brief: Individual project (50%) Mid-project presentations 30/1 | Final presentations 11/2 | Handin 13/2 11:59pm “It’s up to us – One thing is certain. The Web will have a profound effect on the markets and the cultures around the world: intelligent agents will either stabilise or destabilise markets; the demise of distance will …
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Get it together, Jem!
So my way of blogging here usually works like this: Do the classWrite some sort of blog post on my way home on the train in Word (on mobile, typo central)Get home, open the doc on my computerEdit and add to the postCopy the post into wordpressFormat and edit againAdd images or gif’s where appropriatePost …
URLVD User testing and submission
Getting users to test must be one of the hardest parts of this programme, if not in UX itself. When I showed the first prototype in class (link to figma) Sid and Lockie had some great feedback: Simplify – there is too much textCheck the size of the textKeep the buttons consistentThin the whole thing …
Jeremiah Boniface 