Blog #9 Grab is a Southeast Asia-based mobile app providing Deliveries, Mobility, Financial Services, Enterprise and Others services. Grab is used by over 670 million users across 8 countries. This blog will focus on the Grab app and functions available at the Vietnamese market. Grab’s core service is a rideshare app, as Grab is developedContinue reading “App Critique – Grab”
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Blog – Preliminary Research and Summation #3
Blog #8 1.Challenges Facing Immigrant Students Beyond the Linguistic Domain in a New Gateway State Research question: What do teachers perceive as the non-linguistic challenges facing immigrant students in a new gateway state? Method: Online survey was sent to middle and high school social studies teachers in North Carolina Result: Participants identified four challenges beyondContinue reading “Blog – Preliminary Research and Summation #3”
Blog – Preliminary Research and Summation #2
Blog #7 1. Fostering Historically Underserved Students’ Success: An Embedded Peer Support Model that Merges NonCognitive Principles with Proven Academic Support Practices Research question: What are the impacts of an embedded peer support model that carefully integrates non-cognitive and academic principles into a role that combines peer mentorship, supplemental instruction, and tutoring? Do those impactsContinue reading “Blog – Preliminary Research and Summation #2”
ID kit research – What is needed for your field?
Blog #6 What do you consider to be your medium, style, and services of choice? Describe why you feel that is the case and find some examples that support why your approaches are viable. I want to work for a design agency or an in-house designer, so my service will most likely depend on theContinue reading “ID kit research – What is needed for your field?”
Preliminary Research and Summation #1
Blog #5 Research question: How does migrating to America affect Vietnamese immigrant’s parent-child relationship? In this study, they tested five hypotheses: Method: 49 Vietnamese-born and 124 American-born college students who attended Intro to Psychology course were asked to complete a set of questions in class to determine if they experience differences in their family relationshipsContinue reading “Preliminary Research and Summation #1”
Design Ethics
Blog #4 Like other existing voice assistants, Data is an AI machine that is programmed to respond to human interactions. However, Data is significantly different from all voice assisting devices because it has a human form, and can move, act, and talk like a human. More importantly, it has a personality and is a veryContinue reading “Design Ethics”
Inclusive Design
Blog #3 This small exercise is based on Inclusive – A Microsoft Design Toolkit Activity Cards. According to University of Cambridge, “every design decision has the potential to include or exclude customers. Inclusive design emphasizes the contribution that understanding user diversity makes to informing these decisions, and thus to including as many people as possible.Continue reading “Inclusive Design”
Apple Human Interface Guidelines
Blog #2 Apple Human Interface Guideline is a in-depth information available for everyone interested in designing apps or websites on Apple platforms. They has everything from User Interaction to how to use Images and Icons. Apple provides these guidelines to help designer create designs that can smoothly integrate with Apple products. I found it isContinue reading “Apple Human Interface Guidelines”
Why I became a Digital Designer
Blog #1 The reason is simple: I like art and computers, and digital design is the perfect combination of both. As a kid, I enjoyed drawing and making crafts from things I could find around the house. I grown up wanted to become an artist, but my parents worried that an art career would notContinue reading “Why I became a Digital Designer”
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