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stephaniehatala
Oct 17, 202110 min read
Principles of UX Design
User Experience and Design Thinking are concepts that go beyond digital program development. Pretty much everything you interact with on...
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stephaniehatala
Oct 17, 20213 min read
Better Understanding Users with Journey Maps
It’s no secret that companies hold a lot of stock in demographics and customer research data, but data often fails to communicate the...
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stephaniehatala
Oct 11, 20214 min read
Brainstorming and Other Ideation Methods
The third step in the design thinking process, after a team has gathered information and defined the problem statement, is ideation. The...
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stephaniehatala
Oct 8, 20214 min read
Ideation Mash Ups and Unlikely Insight
Ideation is the support beam of the of the design thinking process. Once the problem has been identified and established, ideation...
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stephaniehatala
Oct 4, 20213 min read
Improving User Design with POVs
The design thinking process is a purposeful, thoughtful procedure. After spending a considerable amount of time getting to know who the...
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stephaniehatala
Oct 1, 20214 min read
Problem Statements and the Design Thinking Process
It has been extensively covered but it always bears repeating: the focus of design thinking is the user. The first step of the five-part...
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stephaniehatala
Sep 27, 20214 min read
Personas: Humanizing Demographics
As design thinking and user centered design continue to grow, it’s becoming increasingly clear that basic demographic research is...
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stephaniehatala
Sep 19, 20215 min read
Using Empathy Maps to Find Deeper Understanding
When starting any project with design thinking, the first step is always going to be empathy. User centered design means the designers...
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stephaniehatala
Sep 16, 20215 min read
Designing with Empathy: Methods to Understand Users
Design thinking is a human-centered and creative way of solving problems. The main purpose is to keep the user in mind during every step...
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stephaniehatala
Sep 13, 20213 min read
How Design Influences Your Feelings
The way we interact with websites and how they make us feel isn’t something that’s purely by chance. There is an entire section of design...
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stephaniehatala
Sep 11, 20214 min read
The Art of Selling Feelings: How Emotions Can Create Customers
So much of our time throughout the day is spent looking at advertising. Even our safe havens for entertainment are full of ads: quarter...
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stephaniehatala
Sep 5, 20213 min read
Exercising Empathy
What better way to learn something than to dive into it headfirst? This week, we were tasked with completing a Design Sprint. The purpose...
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stephaniehatala
Sep 5, 20214 min read
Thinking Redesigned
When most people hear Design Thinking they think graphic design. They think sterile, minimalist offices full of smartly-dressed people;...
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