The brief: To develop high-fidelity wireframes for a new mobile app entitled ‘Pass It On.’ Inspiration for the app came when a friend who worked for a sports clothing store was forced to shred perfectly good clothing and trainers. Placing them into a skip in order to make room for the new season’s stock. It […]
Pinterest Usability Testing
The brief: To produce a report evaluating the user experience for new users opening an account and ‘pinning’ items for the first time using the UK Pinterest website pinterest.co.uk. What I did: I conducted a study made up of two parts – the heuristic evaluation and the cooperative evaluation reviewed with the aid of volunteers. […]
Screen Engagement
The brief: This study looks for an answer to the question: Does screen size affect the degree to which viewers engage with a movie? What I did: I conducted an experiment where 60 volunteers were split into two groups of 30. Each group viewed the Independence Day Resurgence trailer before filling in the ‘Sense of […]
The Digital Hand Illusion
The brief: This study looks for an answer to the question: Can people take ownership of a virtual limb that is not their own? Our ability to adopt foreign body parts as being part of our own body, whether physical or virtual, is a curious phenomenon, like many aspects of self-consciousness. We instinctively understand our […]