by Hannah | Feb 5, 2023 | Activity, Development, GDO710
After a quick introduction to the world of prototyping and rapid ideation, our task this week was to unpack the design theory behind an established product by reverse engineering it. I picked the skills menu from the recently released game Horizon Forbidden West for...
by Hannah | Feb 1, 2023 | Development, GDO710, Planning
Be a T, or wear a skill-set sombrero. Image Credit: Matt Lavoie Ultimately, what I want to get out of this MA is the potential for a new future. Just a small goal! To that end, I have read many articles, how-tos and opinion pieces about being as attractive as possible...
by Hannah | Jan 29, 2023 | GDO710, Research
Coming up with an out of the box idea, Image Credit: Lukas Vegys Creativity is a thorny issue as many people see themselves as inherently not creative. As we are working on a UX design course, this was precisely the topic we covered this week; what is creativity, and...
by Hannah | Jan 24, 2023 | GDO710, Research
Image Credit: Quino Al For our first week of study, we were introduced to the world of agile methodologies. Agile as a working method was developed as a reaction to the cumbersome and documentation heavy practices of the past (Zelkowitz 2004). Many people who work...
by Hannah | Jan 22, 2023 | Activity, GDO710
Image Credit: Hannah Cattanach As this MA is an online course, we students will have to work harder than those on a typical university course to gain the same social benefits. Working from home, we must be active with our social intentions. Reflecting the difficulty...
