03 UX Studio : Designing Experience
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Digital Futures Studio
UX Studio : Designing Experience
– Christopher Dalamagas
Studio InqiuryDesigning Experience is a studio course that delves into the intricacies of desirable, feasible, and viable user experience design across various domains such as service, interaction, and business design. The course aims to address common barriers to effective communication and resistance from users and clients through developing a sense of comfort with user confusion and best practices for eliminating such dynamics. Through a student-driven demographic study, students will investigate, research, and develop empathy for the needs of users. The course will require students to generate multiple user experience concepts in response to identified user problems, with the aim of refining a final design direction and user experience outcome based on the findings of their research.
EngagementIn addition to gaining an understanding of user needs, behaviours, and biases, students in this course will also explore best practices for efficiently testing within specific user demographics. The course places a strong emphasis on adapting and refining user experience outcomes throughout the design and prototyping process. Furthermore, students will be expected to develop a deep understanding of the context in which their user demographic exists, through research and testing. This understanding will be consolidated throughout the course, enabling students to design user experiences that are tailored to the specific needs and behaviours of their target audience.
ActivitiesIn this studio course, students will engage in a range of activities, including conducting user research, journey mapping, developing user profiles, interface design, prototyping, commercial validation, and presenting results in the form of an experiential business case. Additionally, students will be expected to effectively communicate the various stages of this process, both within the course projects and to their peers.
AssessmentsThere are three assessment tasks for this studio, the briefs are made up of a range of milestone deliverables that are interconnected and build upon each other.
Brief 1: Research
Brief 2: Design Direction
Brief 3:
Student Knowledge Object (SKO)
ReadingsDesigning With Ambiguity, Part I: Establishing An Experience And Design Principles
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