Interested in seeing more? Check out these students from 2020 cohort:
User Experience Designer
Join Bianca as she testifies to the power of informed decision-making through facilitating collaborative exercises with her project team!
Skills demonstrated: collaborative facilitation, user research, team leadership
Interaction Design and Evaluative Research
Liv tells the riveting story of how she and her team led stakeholders through a goal setting exercise, conducted rapid exploratory UX research, and prototyped a new website design.
Skills demonstrated: exploratory research, interaction design, evaluative research
Content Designer and UX Researcher
Learn how David uses research methods to improve the copy of a fundraising website and how he makes a few interesting discoveries along the way.
Skills demonstrated: growth mindset, listening skills, desire to learn, UX writing
Visual Designer
Rachel facilitated a journey mapping workshop to help a service design team improve their client services. Come along on her meta journey.
Skills demonstrated: service design, remote collaboration, workshop facilitation
User Interface Designer
Hear how Veronika performed a content audit to improve the information architecture of a non-profit organization's website under very tight constraints.
Skills demonstrated: stakeholder management, content audit, usability testing
Content Strategist
Caroline demonstrates how she learned about the power of service design through teamwork, active listening, and creative problem solving.
Skills demonstrated: problem-solving, listening, growth mindset
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UX Designer
Learn how Joseph conducted user research, quickly designed a prototype, and effectively collaborated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Skills demonstrated: strong communication skills, being a team player, and creative problem solving
Service Designer and UX Researcher
Jennifer shares how she applied her education and professional background to deliver value as a service designer and how she learned along the way a designer's work is never really done.
Skills demonstrated: service design, workshop facilitation, growth mindset
User Experience and Interaction Design
Kate walks us through how she navigated inevitable setbacks to redesign a non-profit's donation flow, even while working with a dream project team.
Skills demonstrated: creative confidence, collaboration, remote user research
To even be able to offer this course, it takes a ton of support from our community. We are so grateful to the following people for all of the time, knowledge, patience, and advice shared with us to make this semester's UX Applied Lab course possible:
Teal Garth, Donna Ingram, and the staff of Dress for Success Austin.
Katrina Anaya, Sharon Guess, Christina Schneider, and the staff of NAMI Central Texas.
Kristin Taylor, Stephanie Gates, Garrett Hall, Mark Janchar, Andrew Do, and the COA Service Design Lab team.
Alexa Avila, Peter Van Aller, Carmen Ojeda, Adrian Carpintero, and the entire Fjord Austin design team for their mentorship.
Emilio Harrison, Zohreh Daly, and the entire ACC VisCom department.
Thank you all!
–Molly McClurg (Professor) and the students of Spring 2020 UX Applied Lab @ACC!