The Pratt Institute’s AOS program has a large game design program that, along with Illustration and Graphic Design, requires an introduction of 2 semesters of UX/UI. I am instructing for the first semester. User experience design is the process of enhancing customer satisfaction and loyalty by improving the usability, ease of use, and pleasure provided in the interaction between the customer and the product. This course provides students with a general overview of User Experience Design(“UX”) and User Interface Design (“UI”), paying special attention to mobile usage contexts and building a career in the field.
We completed 3 large assignments along with many small exercises. The first assignment is a redesign of an existing webpage, or a detail of it, considering how to evaluate, research, re-build, and improve the user experience and user interface design. The second assignment is to build an actual website using HTML& CSS. The third piece is a one-sheet for a future technology or app, without any restrictions. You might want to listen to Willy Nelson songs, look at Astrid’s beautiful photography, or rub a cat belly. Here are some stills from the class of 2020:
2023 class
Fall 2023 Wed
Henry Baltz
Jo Ann Chai
Crystal Chen
Ezra Cumbo
Gavin Haberl
Christopher Juneau
Yahli Livni
Nick Malandrino
Chaya Meshchaninov
Zijin Murong
Dallon Sepci
Joshua Singh
first session exercise break
2022 class
Fall 2022 Wed
Annabelle Brudon
Caitlin Dailey
Anselm Dastne
Jeff Deng
Jieyu Fu
Gina Han
Emily Katherine
Mmayen Lewis
Heidi Lin
Savannah Monaco
Vida Parasrampuria
Masha Potemkin
Elizabeth Sheehy
Aimy Ulmer
2021 class
2021 all Ux/UI classes were a hybrid of online and in-class, using the canvas platform and zoom.
Fall 2021 Wed
Coleby Acker
Lisette Andrade
Alejandro Espina
Robin Jee
Gaeun Jeong
Wahca Waste Win McNeil
Jessie Meng
Caroline Reedy
Calvin Tan
Yuning Wang
Sara Zimmerman
Fall 2021 Thu
Simon Barnes
Stephanie Chen
Yi Chen
Connor Coughlin
Harlis Feimster
Kimberly Hong
Anna Ju
Soo Min Jung
Nia Raissian
Dido Wang
Ximu Wei
Yi An Zhou
Guests
And Thanks! to the fabulous guest speakers this semester who were:
Anthony Wallace on Conversion (92 dream)
Cythia BrosnanWeb Design
2020 class
2020 all Ux/UI classes were fully online, using the canvas platform and zoom.
Fall 2020 Wed
Klaude De Castro
Helen Escobar
Pete Gibson
Julia Grippo
Elle McNamara
Julia Pines
Eloise Yalovitser
Fall 2020 Thu
Lona Adelphonce
Dana Baumgartner
Astrid Metta
Monica Trusha Phadnis
Lucca Salomone
Natalie Summers
Guests
And Thanks! to the fabulous guest speakers this semester who were:
Cindy Ahura on Web Design (Blam Partners)
Jürgen Salenbacher on Design for Good (CPB lab Barcelona)
Jamie Mustard on Blocks (the Iconist)
Gene Huang on Interaction Design (Whitney museum)
Anthony Wallace on Conversion (92 dream)
Ivana Randelhover on Game UX (portfolio, Ubisoft)
Jamie Edwards on Blockchain (linkedin)
Here is an outline:
Trying to keep everyone busy:
The zoom meetings are going well and I invited some guests. The first guest was Cindy Ahura, a UX designer who I met through Paul Boag’s UX Friday mixers.
Jamie Mustard is probably one of the best guests one could ever have in class. We at Pratt are humbled at his energy and he has an important message to students and every creative out there. In his book ‘The Iconist’ (https://lnkd.in/g_UVJFW) he describes how blocks help us to stand out and find our personal style. Great book, great guest, great person! THANKS!
Associate Degrees Pratt Institute, #prattinstitute, #uxuidesign, #iconist, #graphicdesign, #anselmdastner Astrid Metta, Julia Grippo
Students
Fall 2019 Wed
Varun Mundra
Sabrina Yoo
Rachel Lee
Sean Williams
Emma Welch
Wendy Li
Scott Stegman
Cameron Aime
Phillip Yeldell
Daniel Herrera
Nikolai Glukhov
Nicole Schiulaz
Guest Speaker: Reid Hitt, Expand the Room
Fall 2019 Thu
Ally L. Bechtold
Alexander J.Caldwell
Jamie Edwards
Amber L. Garcia
Jean C. Gil
Claire M. Mason
Jassiel D. Philis
Bryan J. Willis
Candy Zhu
Mia Hong
Mofana Morojele
Guest Speaker: Reiko Sugitani, American Express Card
This is the Wednesday morning and Thursday afternoon UX/UI class. We discuss why some websites work better than others, and why some look better than others too, how conventions make it easier and how to research and test conversions. For the first gib assignment, we re-designed a web page. Next, we study how a URL works on a server, and how to use HTML and CSS. After writing a concept and making mood boards for a simple webpage we build it using CSS grid and HTML, with some simple javaScript. The last assignment, it’s a one-sheet for a future technology that we wish we could invent.
assignments: 1. redesign a website, 2. build a working HTML microsite, 3. Future Technology
