WEEK 7: Version Control

WEEK 7: Version Control

Image Credit: Liam Jay Version. Control. It is possibly in the top ten list of unsexist topics that I could discuss in my reflective journal, but it is nevertheless an important one and the one I am talking about today! Version control is how teams and individuals...
WEEK 6: Jam Interview

WEEK 6: Jam Interview

When I was introduced to the concept of game jams and design sprints I was unsure of their efficacy given such tight time constraints. But before cementing my opinion of them I decided to talk to Finlay MacDonald, a lecturer at UHI Moray, a university in Elgin,...
WEEK 5: Typography

WEEK 5: Typography

My trip to the Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich to see the original sketches for the Univers font. Over Christmas, I read a book on typography. As a field, it is not something I ever thought about beyond choosing French Script MT for every school essay and...
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...