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Getting to Know Your User Through Journey Maps
As discussed in my previous posts, redesigning and optimizing a site to best fit your users’ needs is a continuous process of testing and...
stephaniehatala
Feb 28, 20223 min read


Mapping the Future: AS IS and TO BE Analysis
As I discussed in my last post, there are many methods of testing that can be used when going about redesigning a website. One of the...
stephaniehatala
Feb 21, 20223 min read


Fast Feedback: The Benefits of Using Five Second Tests
First impressions are everything. A user’s first few seconds of interaction with a design can shape their whole perception of a product...
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Feb 13, 20223 min read


The Design Process vs. Business
When most people think of UX design, their mind goes to the aesthetics of a project. They picture trendy people with thick rimmed glasses...
stephaniehatala
Jan 30, 20223 min read


Blood Thirsty Video Series
Blood Thirsty is a series explores the history of True Crime and its prevalence in the American media. The multi part video series...
stephaniehatala
Dec 19, 20211 min read


Writing and Processing: Moving on to Production
“Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket…the least understood and the least noticed.” Frank Capra Script So now it’s time...
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Nov 22, 20213 min read


Planning a Production
Once of my biggest takeaways from my time spent as a Film Undergrad was the importance of planning a project. With so much that goes into...
stephaniehatala
Nov 8, 20213 min read


Piecing Together A Video Series
Video editing has always been one of my favorite ways to express myself. As someone who works with different mediums both professionally...
stephaniehatala
Nov 1, 20213 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...
stephaniehatala
Oct 17, 202110 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...
stephaniehatala
Oct 17, 20213 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...
stephaniehatala
Oct 11, 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...
stephaniehatala
Oct 8, 20214 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...
stephaniehatala
Oct 4, 20213 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...
stephaniehatala
Oct 1, 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...
stephaniehatala
Sep 27, 20214 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...
stephaniehatala
Sep 19, 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...
stephaniehatala
Sep 16, 20215 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...
stephaniehatala
Sep 13, 20213 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...
stephaniehatala
Sep 11, 20214 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...
stephaniehatala
Sep 5, 20213 min read
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