Monthly gold: Persona Inspiration

Monthly gold is where I pick some gems that I have found recently and aim to replicate as I learn and grow my craft as a User Experience designer. This monthly we focus on Personas.

As a UX designer what tools should you have up your sleeve?

The Collaborative UX Designer’s Toolbox from Lane Halley

Axure vs Balsamiq prototyping

Axure is used for designing interactive prototypes for websites and mobile applications. Similarly Balsamiq is a rapid wireframing tool for designing web and app mockups. I use both and wanted to share in this brief article a comparison between the two applications using examples from a case study.

Mobile app development Part 2 – Personas

This is the second part in a series of how development of a commercial educational  app was conducted. In the first part we looked at the need finding activities used to evaluate what features to include into the application. In this second part we look at the creation of personas to reflect target user goals and motivations.

Designing an automated pizza ordering system

This project was a conceptual problem solving test for a User Experience designer. This was my take on it.

Brief: Designing an automated pizza ordering system which can be used by sit down customers at a restaurant by making it an engaging, easy, relevant, exciting and persuasive experience.