Mapping the User Journey

As we near the end of our second semester the time has come to put our portfolios together. This program has a…

Creating an Action Button in Framer

Coming in as a newbie to Framer, I decided to start at something I saw as small and seemingly…

The Physics Major Who Became An NBA Hero

His journey and character outshine his incredible moment

A hero was born at the Staples Center in Los Angeles last night. After playing 384 games over a 10 year career in the minor league, Andre…

How Capital One Nailed the UX Of In-Person Banking:

One of the worst habits I’ve developed over my time in graduate school is the excessive amounts of coffee I drink on a daily basis. Prior to starting graduate school, I would consume an average of one cup of coffee per day. Since the start…

I Downloaded My Facebook Data — Here’s What I Learned

Service Design

I recently found myself in a passionate debate about poorly designed products and experiences. As designers, we shouldn’t simply accept the way things are, we should try to understand why certain design decisions are made and be that much more intentional with our own work. While a lot of our projects…

Building a Food Truck Brand

Knowing that the Colorado crowd loves traveling and adventure, introducing a global food truck to the area…

The Pandora Game

Confession time. I like to play a weird game. I call it the “Pandora Game.” It sort of works like shaking a Magic 8 ball. I ask…

Generation Exchange

What is Generation Exchange? Generation Exchange is a concept that Matt Isola developed after a close friend of was gifted an iPad and didn’t know how to use it. Matt took the time to teach him the basics of how to use it. In that, he felt that there was a gap that needed to be filled in…

CX and Coffee

Blue sky thinking, Coffee and human-centered design.

Exploring Live Server for Prototyping

In my Experience Design class we just wrapped up a project on design for social innovation. I worked with two other classmates to explore the following problem: How might we help active-enlisted military become more comfortable with accessing PTSD resources prior…

Five Tips for Launching a Crowdfunding Campaign

Building the Perfect Playlist

“Perfect” is contextual. What’s perfect to me may not be perfect to the next person. The framework of…

First Steps in Animation

In various projects now I’ve taken on the role of animating visual elements. So far, I’ve found considerable value in learning to animate for communicating solutions to team members and project stakeholders, as well as providing added value through micro interaction to users. I’m…

Fun With Framer

Having a clickable prototype as a designer can be essential. It can communicate your ideas to stakeholders, allow you to test or prove concepts quickly, it can allow you to gather feedback and iterate on your ideas. There are many tools for prototyping but recently I began to try one called Framer…

Joy Dept

We are live on Indiegogo. This is my first experience on Indiegogo and I am excited to see how this all plays out. If you’re reading this and…