Photon's UX Corner

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8th Episode of UX CORNER : Human Computer Interaction in Mac vs Windows (Wednesday, 24 JUNE 2015)

The event focused on discussion about usability and ease in performing everyday tasks on Mac, iOS and Windows platforms. Workshop observed an enthusiastic group of participants who actively participated in the activities and the discussion.

Fun 
To connect this topic with an instance, everyone was asked to send an SMS to a number using their mobile phones. This provided a chance to engage into the workshop and get involved. 

Similarly there were more fun moments which were captured during the lively workshop.

Collaboration 
There was a good mix of participants from different teams such as Developers, Designers and DB Designers. Everyone participated in different teams and presented their excellent team-player attributes in presenting their ideas.

Learning
As all the activities were cleverly connected with a design fact related to expected user behaviour and the platform standards, the activities naturally followed discussions on the respective principles. This ensured a continued learning about design and its usage in everyday things.


7th Episode of UX CORNER : Consistency In Information Design (Wednesday, 10 JUNE 2015)


The event focussed on discussion about user's mental model and importance of consistency in information design. Workshop observed an enthusiastic group of participants who actively participated in the activities and the discussion.

Fun 
To connect this topic with an instance, everyone was asked to search for date in newspapers provided there, and they were competing against each other to find that out quickly. This provided a nice and comfortable warm-up for all the participants.
Similarly there were more fun moments which were captured during the lively workshop.

Collaboration 
There was a good mix of participants from different teams such as Developers, Designers, QAs and Business Analysts. Everyone played their respective roles in different teams and presented their team-player attributes in solving different problems.

Learning/Problem-Solving
As all the activities were cleverly connected with a design principle related to consistency and user's mental model, the activities naturally followed discussions on the respective principles. This ensured a continued learning about design and everyday activities.


6th Episode of UX CORNER : Usability of Everyday Things (Friday, 5 JUNE 2015)

The event started with a gossip on the widely famous jug featured on the cover page of Norman's book 'Design of Everyday Things'. 


With couple of more similar examples, it touched upon the conceptual models of different designs. The once-more popular game 'Name the Movie' was much enjoyed by the participants and it observed active participation with excitement. 


It concluded with explaining the need of understanding from user's perspective in order to reach a sustainable and usable solution.


5th Episode of UX CORNER : Discussion on Semantic Relations (29 MAY 2015)


Every concept can be connected to be inspired from some or the other source. In turn the source could also be found to be inspired from some other phenomenon. Same is true in the field of human factors and design. Humans tend to behave or conceptualise a certain image based on their prior experience.

The event was run on a similar principle of Semantic Relations.


The activity of 'Name the Movie' was a connected source to map the participant's pre-concepts to certain words and they draw the same while trying to draw a hint for movie name. 


This technique can be used to design appropriate icons in visual design.


4th Episode of UX Corner : Design Process for a Sustainable Future (15 May 2015)


Each team of participants were given a themes from set of burning problems of the world and asked to come up with an idea to solve a particular problem in that field. 
After the idea, they had to design their solution and sell it the other team posing as their customers.


The role-play and team-game kept the participants engaged and enthusiastic. The solutions discussed were well thought and nicely designed.

3rd Episode of UX Corner : Think User (8 May 2015)


Multiple examples of good designs had been presented to site examples of creativity. In a particular context, how can we think through the multiple aspects of user needs was the central idea of the event. 


Participants enjoyed the diverse set of good design examples and worked out mentally to think about some of the innovative solution for given problems like designing something to facilitate the house-hold tasks of mothers or housewives.


2nd Episode of UX Corner : Design Thinking (24 APRIL 2015)


 A gesture based operating system for mobiles was to be designed for different scenarios. Participants were given different scenarios and were asked to follow design thinking process through a guided step wise approach. 

The participants did the persona development and sketched the wireframes for different scenarios.

They presented their innovative solutions and learnt the basic steps of Design Thinking process.

1st Episode of UX Corner : Designing Interactive Digital Catalog (17 April 2015)

The first workshop by UX Corner focused on problem solving through multiple techniques of creative collaboration. A group of participants were asked their personal interests and based on their interests they decided their themes for the solutions. 

Each participant had to present the solution reflecting their theme through the interactive digital catalog of the product of their choice. 


As a result, the workshop collated multiple awesome ideas on interactive catalogs to be implemented in one of the running projects at Photon.