Where I try to figure out my WHY as a UX designer.
Category Archives: Advanced UX Practice
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 …
It’s bloody xmas!
Bianca wanted to get the report done today, and I get that. Lots of people from class are off tomorrow for their hols, and I want to be as well. She is off to Kapiti, which will be beautiful, and me…I wanna garden! We locked ourselves up and focused on getting everything in the report. …
Accessibility workshop.
Lord this would have been handy for the Alzheimer’s project! I love the way Katia frames things, like she isn’t an expert in X and is really open to other ways of seeing what X can be. With the accessibility workshop, for example, it was grand hearing what Marion had to say about it in …
Google in the other room
Bianca and I had our first meeting with the industry partner. I have to admit to being somewhat behind in this, with the complications of the DPD project becoming quite overwhelming and my confidence in my abilities at a low. I’d read through the brief, and looked over the material they’d sent us. They are …
Workshop facilitation
Flying through these classes is akin to whiplash. There are a range of quick-fire exercises in class that I’m not totally convinced we all understand. I’ll speak for myself, I don’t understand it sometimes. But putting it all into practice is better than just talking theory. Key notes from Katia about workshop facilitation: What, when, …
Assignment 1: Sorting it
All this reading is paying off. I can see the power of different methodologies in getting everyone on the same page for a project, but the fire starter/facilitator whatever you want to call it really needs to get everything rolling…or someone does. In DPD, I’m with a lot of alphas, which is going to be …
Reading List
Here, I want to document all the stuff I’ve been reading, and some of the key grabs for me. At the moment, I’m wrapped up in the variety of methodologies, but will supplement that with more focused thoughts and writings on the various arms, legs and other flailing parts of this discipline. Complete Beginner’s Guide …
Day 1
It’s great when someone who isn’t originally from New Zealand or even speaks English as a first language can do their pepeha in te reo with absolute confidence. This is how Katia introduced herself to the class. It shows a real belief in the core values that make New Zealand different from other colonised nations, …
Jeremiah Boniface 