This series of posts are thoughts and responses to the Designing for Usability course at Parsons School of Design. Solar One, the organization that runs the park, is particularly focused on raising awareness and fostering interest on the diversity of indigenous plants in the park. They accomplish this through educational…

This series of posts are thoughts and responses to the Designing for Usability course at Parsons School of Design. On Building Consentful Tech The analogy of consent over our digital bodies with consent over our physical ones is a very pertinent one, to the extent that I question if digital consent has even more…

This series of posts are thoughts and responses to the Designing for Usability course at Parsons School of Design. In Web Design, Accessibility Shouldn’t Be an Afterthought On co-design When reading about these articles about co-design and getting people who are experts in their domain to lead the design process (experts in adaptability: “disabled people are the original lifehackers. Our…

This series of posts are thoughts and responses to the Designing for Usability course at Parsons School of Design. A usability study of the obamacare website: Evaluation and recommendations This research paper reviews the healthcare.gov website using metrics from the usability.gov site. …

This series of posts are thoughts and responses to the Designing for Usability course at Parsons School of Design. I really enjoyed the class I took on Urban Interaction Design, where for one assignment we had to reimagine the public functions of a park (Coleman Park). We conducted site research…

This series of posts are thoughts and responses to the Designing for Usability course at Parsons School of Design. Recap on Client brief Since the start of the project with Stuyvesant Cove Park (SCP), we’ve been having weekly discussions with Candace Thompson, the park manager. …

This series of posts are thoughts and responses to the Designing for Usability course at Parsons School of Design. Personas Make Users Memorable for Product Team Members by Nielsen Norman Group This article has been excellent in explaining the roles personas play throughout the design process, guiding the reader on what to look out for when creating them, as well as cautioning…

This series of posts are thoughts and responses to the Designing for Usability course at Parsons School of Design. This week I created a Google Form qualitative survey, based on my partner’s stated target problem areas: storytelling, interaction, and environmental design in games. Survey Creation The questions I selected were focused on: …

This series of posts are thoughts and responses to the Designing for Usability course at Parsons School of Design. William Gaver et al’s Cultural Probes This comprehensive case study contains a trove of considered and philosophically cohesive set of tools and means designed to elicit a diversity of authentic responses…