Elaine LoinThe Casper Tech Blog: Z++Synthesizing UX research for an internal tool at Casper 😴 🛏 💤As a summer Digital Product Intern here at Casper, I’ve been focusing most of my cold-brew-on-tap-fueled work on improving the user…Aug 7, 2017Aug 7, 2017
Elaine LoUsability Testing IRL (Reflection #8)Performing user testing has been extremely illuminating. All of the users I’ve tested so far have given me invaluable insights, and none of…Jun 21, 2016Jun 21, 2016
Elaine LoUsability Testing (Reflection #7)Watching Steve Krug’s video on usability testing the Zipcar website was insightful as it showed the user’s difficulty calculating how much…Jun 20, 2016Jun 20, 2016
Elaine LoMVP: Most Valuable Player? (Reflection #6)The idea of MVP, or Minimum Viable Product, really stuck out to me in this class. It’s what UX is all about: function. Use. Intuition. It’s…Jun 14, 2016Jun 14, 2016
Elaine LoSketching and Task Analysis (Reflection #5)Sketching! It’s easy. Anyone can do it. Gets the job done. We sketch wireframes to create low-fidelity models. The ladder metaphor comes to…Jun 13, 2016Jun 13, 2016
Elaine LoNot Reinventing the Wheel (Reflection #4)Before taking this class, I hadn’t really thought about the business side of things in UX design. But now, it makes perfect sense to me…Jun 13, 2016Jun 13, 2016
Elaine LoPersonifying Personas (Reflection #3)Personas humanize raw data. They remind us that real humans with nuanced feelings, behaviors, and attitudes interact with whatever we are…Jun 13, 2016Jun 13, 2016
Elaine LoUser Centered Research (Reflection #2)It’s no surprise that the user comes first in UX. As I was going through our first exercise in class, designing a functional bag for…Jun 12, 2016Jun 12, 2016
Elaine LoOn the User Experience Umbrella (Reflection #1)When I first heard about UX, I thought, “Oh, designing what buttons look like and making apps look pretty. That’s cool.” Never mind user…Jun 2, 2016Jun 2, 2016