WEEK 2: Creative Remix / Nancy

WEEK 2: Creative Remix / Nancy

To get our creative juices flowing, we were tasked this week with ‘remediating’ a piece of artwork and turning it into something new! I’ll admit, I cheated on this one. I read the challenge brief and immediately knew what I wanted to do. Found poetry, a technique...
WEEK 2: Cognitive Psychology

WEEK 2: Cognitive Psychology

Coming up with an out of the box idea, Image Credit: Lukas Vegys Creativity is a thorny issue as many people see themselves as inherently not creative. As we are working on a UX design course, this was precisely the topic we covered this week; what is creativity, and...
WEEK 1: Agility

WEEK 1: Agility

Image Credit: Quino Al For our first week of study, we were introduced to the world of agile methodologies. Agile as a working method was developed as a reaction to the cumbersome and documentation heavy practices of the past (Zelkowitz 2004). Many people who work...
WEEK 1: Custom Avatar

WEEK 1: Custom Avatar

Image Credit: Hannah Cattanach As this MA is an online course, we students will have to work harder than those on a typical university course to gain the same social benefits. Working from home, we must be active with our social intentions. Reflecting the difficulty...
WEEK 1: My Next Adventure

WEEK 1: My Next Adventure

So. Here we are. This post marks the beginning of my MA in User Experience Design with Falmouth University. I ended up peering through the door of UX when I realised that a career in architecture wasn’t right for me. The more I researched the industry, the further I...