As I begin wrapping up the spring semester I have started putting together a presentation board that tells the story of my research and design. I still have a few items to adjust based off feedback from last class but overall, I am very pleased with how this project has turned out!
https://www.behance.net/gallery/141875583/A-Pizza-Mind
Category: Design Strategies and Methods
A/B and Semantic differentials testing
As I am working on the design and user experience of my website, I incorporated a couple user tests to help make design decisions. This exercise has helped me to see how my users are interacting with the website. It has also helped me in creating and asking good research questions to help shape strategic decision making along with user friendly design.
View tests:
https://forms.gle/pAe6qswjACQMmnz76
Research work on mental health site
This is some progress work on researching/developing a persona for the mental health website for college students. With the target audience of college students in mind, I developed a persona who also has a physical disability. After research and using different design models, I realized although he has a physical disability the way that he would utilize the site is not much different than the average college student. Which is how my design thinking shifted from focusing on the disability to focusing on my users needs and likes. One of them being his love for pizza. Which will be the next round of iterations. Focusing on mapping out my idea for combining college student’s love for pizza with engagement in mental health resources.
Concept Scenarios/Wishlist
As we develop ideas to create a simple and easy to understand website for college students who seek mental health, we were tasked with using a design method called concept scenarios. Here, I tried to think of my persona and decided to focus on some ideas around their interests. Pizza, and friends are the two I focused on. What if you landed on a mental health website that was focused on pizza? How would this stand out to users? Would it be more approachable? What if the basic questions that were asked were asked by yourself or a peer VS the standard read a question, tick answer? Playing videos and showing what some of these depression situations could look like could also be helpful to the user to relate to how they are feeling. These are some ideas I am circling around for this project. We shall see what is to come!
Persona wishlist
I have created a “wishlist” for my persona and what their needs for this website may be.
Process+Growth in Design 