Category: Qualitative Inquiry

• Activity-Centered Design design design methods design research design theory HCI/d Human-Centered Design methods Qualitative Inquiry research scenario-based design User experience UX

  screening research participants

  tl;dr know which participants you need to conduct research that generates value and design screeners to ensure that you get them. We recently finished a round of interviews designed to put ourselves in a position to explain how experienced middle school teachers select literary texts to use in their ELA…

  September 23, 2021
• design design methods design research HCI HCI/d Human-Centered Design Human-Computer Interaction Interaction Design learning Qualitative Inquiry research scenario-based design User experience UX

  reflection improves communication

  tl;dr If you’re not reflecting on your product practices, then you’re going to have a hard time improving them. Today I reflect some more on communication. When you’re the communicator, you have the power to establish a clear frame of reference for your audience in order to minimize the possibility…

  September 20, 2021
• design design methods design research design thinking Human-Centered Design Qualitative Inquiry research User experience UX

  recruiting ux research participants

  tl;dr If you need research participants, you’re on a tight deadline to collect data, and you’ve exhausted your personal network(s), including current users of your product, then here are two suggestions that produced decent results for me: (1) get stakeholder buy in so that you can offer good incentives and…

  September 7, 2021
• design design research education HCI Human-Centered Design Instructional Design Instructional Technology methods Qualitative Inquiry Uncategorized

  Adobe Spark

  This is my first time experimenting with Adobe Spark, and I foresee making lots of one-minute explainer videos for my spring semester human-centered design course. https://youtu.be/8cfg1-ZifZc

  October 9, 2018