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Sprinting Toward a Solution: Design Thinking
Introduction If you know anything about Design Thinking, you know it can be a lengthy process that sometimes seems neverending. If you don’t know anything about Design Thinking, check out my last blog post! Regardless, Design Thinking in a few words is a method to define a problem and develop a solution. To get the…
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User Centered Design: An Insight Into Product Lifecycle & Iterative Design
Introduction For a product to be positively accepted by its audience, it is important that it is designed around the user. If a product is designed without input from its user, it is likely that the audience will have a poor experience when interacting with it. This is why it is important for the design…
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What is Design Thinking Anyway?
Introduction If you have ever dived into the world of design, chances are you have heard the phrase “design thinking.” In the most basic terms, design thinking is a fluid problem-solving method. Designer Tim Brown defines it as, “A methodology that imbues the full spectrum of innovation activities with a human-centered design ethos.” It consists…
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CTE: The Short Form Version
When creating promotional content for social media, it is important to take into account the preexisting culture on each platform. You want your post to stand out, but not in a negative, “doesn’t fit in” way. This was something that I took into account when creating promotional content for my article “Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE):…
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Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE): A Pecha Kucha Presentation
Pecha Kucha is a form of presentation that consists of 20 slides that are 20 seconds each. Each slide highlights an image, with little to no text. The intention is to present in a way that your audience develops a well-rounded understanding of your topic. Because I was writing a long-form article (posted on Medium)…
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Shining a Light on Creative Burnout
An Introduction As a working, full-time college student it should come as no surprise that I often find myself burnt out creatively. Every day brings new tasks that I have to balance between the responsibilities of work and school. With fast-approaching deadlines sometimes it is hard to find the time to take a break and…
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Is Context God?
Where it All Started In 1996 Bill Gates coined the phrase, “content is king.” But what did he mean by that? In his essay, Gates discussed the importance of content creation. With the development and rise of the internet and online marketing, content creation proved to be a significant way to grow an audience.…
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Who Should We Be Writing For?
A Brief Introduction As I writer, I often find myself trying to tell stories. I believe stories are a great way to form a connection with an audience and keep them engaged. Audiences don’t like to be left on a cliffhanger; they want to keep reading to know how the story ends. I can not…
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How Psychology Plays a Role in UX Design
An Introduction As a writer, I’m guessing when you read this title you belong to one of three groups. The group of people that have a good understanding of what UX design is, the group of people that have heard of UX design but still aren’t sure what it is, and the group of people…
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Readable Web Content: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
A Brief Introduction When searching for a good and poor example of readable web content I decided to use the article “The Start of a New Era for Responsive Web Design” by Francois Brill on the website UX Collective as a good example and the article “UX Design Has a Dirty Secret” by Tanya Snook…
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