Master’s Reflective Journaling – Week 7

Jun 30, 2019 | Uncategorized

It’s the final week of our first class in the program! I’m happy to have made it through to the end and to have experienced being “back in school.” This week we did a layout for a persona (mine below). I don’t often get to do truly visual...

Master’s Reflective Journaling – Week 6

Jun 23, 2019 | Uncategorized

My mind is kind of blown by the fact that it’s almost the end of my first course in my Masters program. It’s something I didn’t think I’d ever get around to doing but was always an aspiration of mine 🙂 This week focused on type and it did not...

Master’s Reflective Journaling – Week 5

Jun 16, 2019 | Personal

This week was the intro into visual design. Similar to some of the basics of psychology that influence design, it was nice to get a reminder of the principles of visual design. As someone with an engineer-y brain, I like that a lot of design can be boiled down to a...

Master’s Reflective Journaling – Week 4

Jun 9, 2019 | Personal

I’m SO GLAD to be done with the textbooks. It way more dense than I thought it would be! I enjoy learning the psychology and physiology of the human mind as it applies to user experience…but some of the chapters were so dense my mind was melting. My...

Master’s Reflective Journaling – Week 3

Jun 2, 2019 | Uncategorized

Different from last week, my favorite part of this week was the mini design critique and redesign of the dialog box. I found the readings this week a little heavy into theory…which is cool when I’m wide awake, but no so great to read on the couch after a...