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A Few Other Benefits to Personas

(Image Credit: Gemma MacNaught) Personas can be a great tool to make sure your product and company is user-centered. These fictitious characters are created from data gathered while observing real customers. They are used...

31 07 2015 / Posted by leslie
One Size Fits All Approach Towards Multiple Platforms

I’m a huge fan of building apps and websites matching the design pixel per pixel. This stems from the fact that I got into development being a designer first. When...

15 05 2015 / Posted by leslie
Customer Journey Map Template

After researching for a customer journey map template and finding various types. I decided to take bits and pieces of each and create my own for my graduate final project....

23 05 2013 / Posted by leslie
Grad Final Project Preview

For our graduate final project we were tasked to work with real world business owners and apply our design management skills; research, identify opportunities and determine future trajectory according to...

20 05 2013 / Posted by leslie
SCAD 2013 Senior Poster

For graduation, SCAD had seniors work on a poster highlighting some of the graduate work we did. It was then showcased at the departments graduation gathering for spectators to view....

17 05 2013 / Posted by leslie
Importance of Paper Quality

Had I known then the importance of paper quality, this drawing would have kept its original state for years. The opposite side of 100% Rag Watercolor paper, the Arches brand...

20 04 2013 / Posted by leslie
Women in Tech Presentation

Idea Visualization, taught us how to research and develop presentations to effectively summarize issues with the use of imagery. Here are a few screen captures of my graduate talk on...

20 02 2013 / Posted by leslie
Facilitating Creative Thinking

Successful design managers need to be able to create the conditions for creative thinking and innovation within an organization composed of a wide variety of professionals, most of whom are...

20 02 2013 / Posted by leslie
Reframing the Tire

The goal of this study was to change the way people think about a commodity product, the tire. We had to create a proprietary branded product that would generate higher...

11 11 2012 / Posted by leslie
Rapid Visualitzation

Currently learning methods for rapid visualization of ideas. We have been reading Kurt Hanks, Rapid Viz book. For the next 3 weeks we are to rapidly sketching 10 pages per...

15 09 2012 / Posted by leslie