USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN PROGRAM
USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN PROGRAM
Spring 2021 - Case Study Presentations
Spring 2021 - Case Study Presentations
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Forget what you think you know about community college students. The eleven students in this year's UX Design capstone course are working professionals with a diversity of experiences and skill sets, including the resilience and thoughtfulness to navigate what the world throws at them. The case study stories below showcase their design, technical, and professional learnings after a semester of working with four non-profit and civic clients on live problems with real constraints.
I think Applied Lab was the most important class for me at ACC. I enjoyed learning how to do UX in a team and working with clients as a part of a team. The design operations piece was just as important as the actual IA/research work we did...That was probably the hardest and most rewarding parts of the class because design is never in a vacuum, and that can't be more true than in my current role." - UX Applied Lab Student, Spring 2021
Allison Trevino
Allison Trevino
User Experience Designer
Ally recounts her experience designing a digital volunteer hub and how she had to adapt and problem solve to overcome unforeseen challenges.
Skills demonstrated: problem-solving, adaptability
Ashlie weitting
Ashlie weitting
User Experience Designer, UX Researcher, Information Architect
In this video Ashlie discusses the various challenges she and her team faced throughout their project.
Skills demonstrated: recruiting remotely, time management, and scoping
Billy Barkhurst
Billy Barkhurst
UX Project Manager
Journey with Billy through project management of a client website redesign as he makes big decisions to adjust, cull and re-calibrate priorities.
Skills demonstrated: collaboration, client and team communication, team leadership, strategic planning.
Carolyn Shetter
Carolyn Shetter
UX Architect & Researcher
Learn about Carolyn's journey from being a solo researcher to a team player while working on a site redesign for Austin Public Library.
Skills demonstrated: Collaboration, communication, group synthesis, leadership
Carrington Smurl
Carrington Smurl
User Experience Designer
Hear how Carrington works with her team to facilitate research and deliver a project on time, all while trying to remain unbiased.
Skills demonstrated: User research, Prototype design using figma, group collaboration
Carson Stanch
Carson Stanch
User Experience Designer
Join Carson as she facilitates focused conversations with her teammates on how to balance the client's requests of "blue-sky" solutions with user needs.
Skills demonstrated: ideation, being a team player, creative problem-solving.
Cheyenne Clark
Cheyenne Clark
User Experience Designer
Learn how Cheyenne's path down a rabbit hole led to a greater appreciation of user research and forced her to pivot in a direction that resulted in a changed perspective of herself.
Skills demonstrated: humility, adaptability, confidence, 3 solution deliverable
Cynthia noell
Cynthia noell
User Experience Design
Cynthia shares how she managed being a parent and full-time student with design for a real client for the first time ever, all while trying to stay on schedule during a pandemic
Skills demonstrated: project management, collaboration, user research
Kevin Greszler
Kevin Greszler
User Experience Designer and Content Writer
Learn how Kevin's frustration with designing on a team with no officially defined roles led to him discovering a new passion and finding his place on the team.
Skills demonstrated: communication, collaboration, ux writing, and being a team player
Alexandro santi
Alexandro santi
User Experience and User Interface Developer
Alexandro shares how he over came the plethora of challenges that comes with a project that is constantly changing at a moments noticed.
Skills demonstrated: adaptability, usability testing, web design, project management
Stacy holloway
Stacy holloway
User Experience Designer
Stacy walks us through how she navigated inevitable setbacks to redesigning a non-profit's website after being moved from one team to another.
Skills demonstrated: adaptability, being a team player, user research
Thank you!
Thank you!
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:
Sabryna Groves of Service Learning Lab.
Kelly Clarke the staff of Down Home Ranch.
Lex Stewart and the staff of the ACC CSIT Department and the Texas IT Apprenticeship program.
Tatiana Gonzalez the staff of the Austin Public Library.
Frances Sun, Wen Xiong, Stacey Sarris, Hope Turner, Riad Nassar and the entire ACC VisCom department.
Thank you all!
–Molly McClurg (Professor) and the students of Spring 2021 UX Applied Lab @ACC!
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