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Interaction Design Theory

Ever work with someone and they ask you to design something ‘fun’? First off, I love designing fun experiences, but then again, I’ve never been asked to design a painful experience - 90s era web pages not withstanding. Today, when presented with that challenge, my first response is always, “help me understand what you mean by fun”.

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Design Bravery & The Big Picture

I'm studying concepts and executions behind the elements of conversational interfaces. This is work I've done with past clients and companies yet it's been a bit of a challenge to explain the breadth of conversational interfaces in terms of understanding how humans act, before, during and after using the product.

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Visual Hierarchy - Wk 2 - part 3/3

I'm amazed at how designers don't throw themselves into a wall. This task was daunting and far more complex than I anticipated. For my task, I wanted to concept something around SolFox, a small startup I'm advising. While the content and the product content hasn't been fleshed out, the theme is using data to discover a deeper story about your customers, without spending much time in doing so.

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Visual Hierarchy - Wk 2 - part 2/3

We were given a few blocks of text and tasked with creating a visual hierarchy. "Play around with weight, spacing, alignment, contrast (shades of grey), and try to simplify your design as much as possible while still conveying hierarchy. "

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Visual Hierarchy - Wk 2 - part 1/3

We were asked to create a visual hierarchy for what amounts to a twitter clone. My original thought was to look at what others have done for train-of-thought social sites, but this time around I wanted to hold off on exploration. My goal was to build as much as I could given my inspirations, and then if I got stuck I could poke around on other people's ideas.

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My Take At A Landing Page

I've enrolled in this online design class called DesignLab and things officially kicked off on Jan 8th. Every week, we work with mentors to learn and understand the basics of design.

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Sketch vs Keynote?

I've always appreciated good design, but I've always wanted to actually design the designs. Much like karaoke, what I envision in my mind isn't exactly what comes out. I've bought numerous sketchbooks, fancy felt pens and a couple drawing tutorials, but I'm usually discouraged by the presence of permanent ink.

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