An important KISS lesson for user experience design is if you don’t know for whom you are designing, you can’t improve the product. The way UX designers attempt to know the end users is by creating personas. According to Stull, even if the persona is a complete fiction, it also needs to be grounded in the facts […]
Posts from February 2024
Designing for “IMPACTS”?
In October of 2023, the University System of Georgia (USG) announced a complete overhaul of the General Education curriculum at the 30 institutions under its purview. Throwing out the old Areas A – F, the USG has crafted an entirely new brand known as IMPACTS. According to the USG, the “Core IMPACTS is not a […]
Documenting the Digital
In her foundational article on photography in digital gamespaces, Poremba interrogated the use of screenshots by players of online games such as The Sims or World of Warcraft. The use of photography/screenshots, along with its “strong link to the true event – the recording of the real,” also allows the user/player/designer to “own” the experience […]