Project Plan An Agile Management Structure involves establishing a problem to solve, and then moving quickly between stages with constant revision and iteration. Our Gantt chart below provides evidence of this flexible workflow, which is why some sections overlap- we were constantly iterating, improving and building on what we knew…

The five Design Thinking Modes were most blended in our process during the prototyping phase. Our design process has been broken into eight different stages or rounds of iteration to illustrate the developments and collaborative work between Saturn. …

Usability Testing Procedure Saturn are satisfied with the high levels of rigour achieved in our usability testing process, so our method will be discussed in some detail. We tested our prototype with two participants each (10 total) between the ages of 25–34. Because of the restrictions of virtual testing, we…

Teamwork & Collaboration Each member of Saturn has a design background, which meant a collaborative working environment was a familiar and comfortable space for everyone. Saturn showed mutual respect to one another’s work and opinions, a generosity and open mindedness in constructive criticism, as well as a sharing of different…

Over the course of these blog posts, I have outlined how we used Stanfords Design School ‘modes’ of design thinking (Scott Doorley, 2018) to guide our creative process through improving an element of Microsoft Teams. Iteration happened across all five stages, and each new piece of information gathered informed subsequent…

We defined our problem statement, an actionable statement that “1) condense your perspective on the problem, and 2) provide a metric for success to be used throughout the design thinking process”(Gibbons, 2019). Ours was “to help Tiffany submit homework so that she could manage her learning from home”. …

Before we could ‘define’ what problem we needed to solve, we had to conduct user research. User research tries to understand the ‘impact of design on an audience’ (Goodman, 2012). It seeks to gain a greater understanding of the who, what, and why of our users: how do you measure…

This blog will track my progress and learning on the MSc UX Design course in IADT. Team: Our team consists of Ultan O’Broin, Niamh Kearns and myself. Ultan has a background in User Experience, Niamh in fashion design, and mine in graphic design, so between us we are bringing multiple…