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  • Turning Sketches into Prototypes for Usability Testing

    Ever come across an app or website that is so difficult to use you just gave up? It probably lacked proper usability testing. But what is usability testing you ask? It’s when you evaluate a product or system by giving it to real people to interact with and to complete tasks with. If you’re in…

  • Back to Basics with Low-Fidelity Prototypes

    In the design thinking process, prototyping is the most exciting in my opinion. This stage is for creating tangible mock-ups that show your ideas from your research and brainstorming. This process allows designers to step back from “designing” and to start sketching, drawing, and pasting together simple concepts that they can later test on users.…

  • Mapping the Journey: Exploring User Stories & Flowcharts

    Both user stories and flowcharts are an important step in the UX process. But not everyone knows their purpose or where to implement them into their work. While both are essential for UX design, they also go hand in hand, when designers need to learn about their users and how they interact with their digital…

  • Crafting an App’s Information Architecture

    My ongoing project of restructuring Ridgefield, Connecticut’s municipal site has been a learning process. If you have visited this site or similar town websites, you know they don’t always have the smoothest navigation. My goal of organizing and restructuring the current website has deemed a difficult one, where I quickly learned that I wouldn’t be…

  • Building up a Website’s Information Architecture

    Most of us are familiar with browsing the web or searching a website for information. But we don’t often think about the site’s layout until we are lost and left wondering how we ended up on a page in the first place. Yet this is exactly why information architecture is so important. Information architecture, or…

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