Planning a client kickoff meeting

Last week, we officially launched our project at our client kickoff meeting at MaRS. Beforehand, we…

Designing for measurable impact

A reset helps the team re-focus on the problem we’re solving and the goals we aim to meet

A short sprint for UX research analysis

How we reviewed all our user research data in a one-day sprint session

4 reasons why we chose a Lean UX approach

Having successfully completed the user research phase of our capstone project, the team is getting ready to power through the next design phases. As we were project planning for the next 3 months, our capstone advisor suggested we explore Lean UX. Nervous…

How we used Asana to run user interviews and usability tests

Themes sheets: lean affinity mapping for on-the-go research analysis

A quick and easy method we’re using to distil our user research on the fly

Pilot, iterate, repeat

Attention UX designers, this is your pilot speaking: you need to iterate on your user research activities. Also, your cheesy jokes.

This is just a draft: the prototyping mentality

Big sprint; tiny room

Reflections from our co-design sprint on big teams in tiny spaces, pros & cons of zen voting, and more