Methods and the User Experience

Methods and the User Experience course has educated me on the importance and benefits this profession brings to the table. User experience focusing on maximizing the customer’s satisfaction efficiency, and productivity when applying UX concepts. Prior to Full Sail I received an Associates in Human Factors and Ergonomics so coming into this class I had some understanding of UX. The goal of a UX designer is simple, their job is to create highly usable products by making the user’s task comfortable and easy as possible providing a smooth transition. Coming from the Simulation and Visualization studio, the projects in effect right now are incorporating some UX techniques. For instance, one project chose to implement full walking features. Without properly going through user-centered approach designs, it was a lessons-learned of problems relating to programming and the user becoming disoriented. Learning from their lack of UX controls, the project next in line went through different quality controls to ensure the client is comfortable, negating disoriented effects and still receiving optimal training from the simulation.  The better we understand users needs and the product we create to address them, the better our basis for the estimation of our product design and development effort and costs. The goal for the remaining of my time here with my capstone is to get acquainted and work with the UX lab to get a better grasp of their techniques and the way they look at a project form a different angle.