From User/Learner to Designer

User Experiences (UX Design), Heuristics

and Digital Projects

~COMP 2~

What will you create for your fandom?

What will you design for your research?

Presentation & Community Impact

• Venngage - "Which of the 8 types of presentation models will your project go in?"
• HBR - "What areas of preparing for a presentation do you need to focus on?
• Meade - "What types of artifacts would best represent your journey studying gaming, media, and digital/tech culture this semester?

Charities, Outreach, and Engagement Question

• What are the positive ways game culture and online communities on social media sites are helping combat negativity/harm online?
• How can your writing/research help show engagement within the online community or fandom?

What type/style presentation will your project take on? Could one of the Venngage template models work? (All infographic/presentation sites have templates to choose from)

What kind of artifacts (visual, digital) could help your project and presentation?

Meade's "Artifact & Portfolio" Text

4 Step Process of using Artifacts

1. Collect

• What shows your learning? Understanding/exptertise?
• Your story, personal growth?

2. Select

• Which artifacts are most useful to my audience?

3. Reflect

• What does your artifact mean? Descriptions & Purpose

4. Connect

• What should the audience think of this artifact?

"Artifacts are evidence of what you have learned; they demonstrate skills, document expereiences and show competencies" (Meade)

What will you design?

For Web-building:

Canva

Wix

Weebly

For Infographics:

Venngage

Canva

Piktochart

Visme

For Social Media:
Canva

MediaModifier

Post Generators

For Presentations:

Canva

Prezi

Google Slides/Powerpoint

1. Information Phase: Review facts, stories, and sources from your major essay & assignment expansion assignments - compile most relevant quotes and information; what important info should your audience know?

2. Design Phase: Review Digital Project options (e.g. site-building, infographics, presentation platforms, social media etc.). Create a bulleted list of what visual images, posts, data visuals and other content should go into your project.

3. Presentation Phase: What order or structure do you want to discuss your project, in terms of posts, slides, navigating through your infographic or site?

Digital Project Outline

Compile in a Word Doc for later use.

Spotlight: Telling a Digital Story through Online Tools - A Teacher's Experience

• Mixture of text sources and image/visual appeal
• Every image has a purpose:
  • shows communication methods,
  • relevant research,
  • stats & facts
  • examples of class ideas (Gee's learning principles, participatory culture, research methods, genre/remix, etc.
  • be "conversational" 

Design Do's

• Avoid "text-heavy" content as it loses audience; results in reading content
• poor color and background choices
• lack of organization or structure to your content.
• images/visual content does not support your writing/findings.

Interacting with Designed Content

Browse the models by clicking on the following images to take us to sample infographic visuals:

What type of infographic design was appealing to look at? What ideas could work well for your topic in creating a visual like this?

Add this idea to your DESIGN PHASE in the Digital Project Outline.

Games & Media

Educational

Technology

• For your classmates, LIST your major essay topic themes you are working with.
• Include a Sample Site (URL), image, source, or example of content that will be in your Digital Project
• Include a couple brainstorming questions for your group members right now about their topics. What research, content, or design questions do you have?

Digital Project Outline Interaction Thread

• Remember, you are adding to your Digital Project Outline, practice including the following in your outline:
  • Sample Images or visuals that you can use in your digital project.
  • A Site/Resource that will be part of your talk.
  • Test out Canva, an Infographic platform, a sample social media post; find the right design template for your needs - consult our Digital Project assignment in Canvas.

Design Phase Practice

I will come around to see what visual content, platform, or design you are choosing to practice with in class today.