In this module, I focus on becoming a reflective practitioner. It would empower me to move forward as the creative and technical landscape changes and to discover and pioneer new opportunities.
It's been a while since I left my last formal study. I studied information technology and got my first job as a web designer/programmer – and that began my journey to experience design. Finding creative solutions using technologies that could help both businesses and...
People often think of designers as the unlimited source of innovations and creativity. The truth is that it’s wrong. It’s often required different methods and collaboration to foster ideas. I believe that great designers use different tools to effectively ideate and...
I love prototyping, and I love rapid ideation. These are the best design tools to validate designers' ideas and solutions without the additional overhead to engineer the real thing. In my opinion, rapid ideation can help bring concepts to reality in a very low-cost...
This week revealed the theme of the first rapid ideation session. It consisted of a surrealist Dixit card and a news article of our choice. The surrealist Dixit card is a little child-like person holding a sword in front of a giant blue dragon, appearing fire and...
This week, we focused on critical reflection and deliberate practice. I have been in design for many years now. I gained a lot of knowledge through my journey from day one. After all these years, I have always known that design was my passion – I like solving...
It had been six weeks into the course, and I struggled to find the time and the right rhythm. This week gave me much-needed time to catch up and reflect on improving my project and time management. Last week, I set one of my goals to spend an additional hour every day...
This week's topic was Version Control and why it is essential for development. While reading this week's material, mostly around developers, it got me thinking, how about designers? The evolution of design tools For Version Control, Git is a popular choice among...
This week's topic was about how we approach research ethics and care for our participants. We also learned how we ranked the risk level based on the Falmouth University Integrity and Ethics policy. The articles and the references provided in this week's bibliography...
In week 7's journal entry, I shared the evolution of design tools and workflow, which I have experienced throughout my journey to a UX designer. After watching the presentation by Professor Heidi Ellis[1], I wanted to research some open-source projects related to UX...
When I started at jobsDB.com back in 2012, it was a young product team. As an Art Director, my first project was to introduce a new brand and design system requiring the dev team to change every page on the website. That was a painful process. The visual design team...
Real WROKS is an employment platform by Falmouth University, where students can find resources and opportunities to help their job search journey upon graduation. I didn't have the time I needed to complete the Art of the Approach curriculum yet. I was a bit tied up...
Happy New Year! I finally made it to the last week's topic of the Development Practice module. It was a great twelve weeks. Before this module, I didn't expect to reflect on myself so much. As the last episode of this module, I would like to reflect on my progress and...
Transcript for the personal case study video (GDO710): Hello, my name is Didier. I am currently studying for a master’s degree in UX Design. It’s been over two-decade since I left my last formal education. I was excited and, at the same time, nervous about the...