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Maybe if it's possible you could show some simple basics on how to use a design tool so it's easier to start working? But thank you for the course, I found it very educational :)

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‒Your experiences, opinions, recommendations etc.
- Think about your experiences on doing the UX design and evaluation work alone, with a pair or in a group?

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I think I would have gotten better fulfilment out of the assignment if I had decided to do it just by myself, in my case the issue was that the topic was clearly decided and driven by me, so I ended up being de-facto project manager and implementer. This led to an imbalance in effort and it was hard to get accountability from others when working remotely.

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It was also nice to have this possibility to do assignment alone.

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‒ Your recommendations for the next course
- Selection of the topic: own topic, given by teacher, real customer topics, Master’s thesis topics?

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I think the way topics were chosen for the larger assignment was fine, I think the individual assignments have been good all in all as well! It would help to have a pool of topics given by teacher so attendees that don't have a topic in mind yet can select one from there.

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I think that my topic was ok, although it is quite complicated. Due my background it was interesting to think these issues from this perspective.

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Nice to get to select the size of your group or if you want to work alone. Working alone worked fine, especially because there was no need to hassle with online tools.

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Own topic was nice.

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I think it's great that we could choose whether to do the work independently or in a group. Some people prefer one over the other, which is totally fine, so it would be nice to have this option in other courses as well. I liked doing this with a pair, we shared the workload and got to discuss different phases of the course with each other.

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My recommendations: more guidance in general. Maybe examples of what kind of assignments were done by others in the course earlier and more tips towards what are good questions to ask for example in data collection.
Topic: Free choice with some ideas laid out is okay. Also could be interesting to have everyone use the same topic as was discussed yesterday.

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-Maybe providing some rough ideas that could be used as the assignment topic? Just to get the train of thought going. :)
-Own topic works well for this course, but as I said, it would be nice to have some example ideas too.

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Doing this in group would have been nice but for practical reasons (particularly timetables), doing alone was the better option for me this time.

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It was really nice to have a choice. Students have such different situations with other courses, so they might already have a lot of group projects going on or vice versa.

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It is good to have some topics at least as examples.

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- How well your UX design and management process went?
- The most challenging issues
- What would you improve

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Comparing different kind of topics and user groups

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Comparing different kind of topics and user groups

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- Can you easily understand the difference between user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design?
- Can you design for UX?
Examples?

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- I did my work alone, so can't really give recommendations or experiences regarding team work.
- It was easier for me to do this work alone, because of the multitude of courses for this period.

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Somewhat, UI design focuses more to actual tangible items on the interface like icons, buttons, functionalities. While UX focuses on more intangible like how users feel about certain aspects of design, is it easy/accessible/understandable for them and does the interaction bring joy to them.

Yes - you can design FOR UX but not the UX itself :)

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I think overall the process went well, biggest challenge was working in a group remotely which skewed the balance of work a bit, it's harder to hold others accountable and to deadlines in a remote setting.

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Having your own topics seems justified in this course. I think this implementation was somehow different than usual because of the pandemic, so it's hard to give any recommendations. So let's just hope we're not facing such challenges anymore in the near future!

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Yes I can, for example UI relates to what an icon looks like and UX relates to how the user understands or feels about the icon. Designing for UX is also easier now thanks to learning how to evaluate and define UX goals, and how to design in general with a tool (Figma).

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I think that this has been clarified during this course. And I think I can, it is important to understand users and their needs.

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Making the distinction requires still some thinking. It not that obvious with this little experience in the topic. Designing for UX can be rewarding when you see how potential users get excited about the possibilities of the product.

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The later assignments felt a bit weird to do later on

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I think because this course is more theoretical, I don't have anything to add per se. It would have been awesome to have some professional UX designer from the industry to give a lecture of "Here, this is how I would do this and that". Again, we're in the University, so theoretic aspects have the floor... I, personally would have liked more of that designing aspect, but hey, this is University.

And yeah.. Examples would have been great. Like: Here's awesome UX design, this is horrible...

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- Don't really know what to recommend. More specific areas to concentrate on, maybe?
- Well it came up in the introduction lecture, but I know some people that related on the topic, so it struck me there.

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When it comes to UI decisions, it would be crucial to be in the same place at the same time, physically. It helps a lot to just show "Hey, here's my idea". This when you are completing this course as a group.

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I know that now, thanks to this course. I think I have lots of more to give to UX design rather than UI design.

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I learned a lot, but I did this alone and sometimes I missed discussion

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I think so. I love playing around in the UI side, but the usability being heavily linked to that, I think I can design purely for UX.

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After we got our project running it went quite smoothly. Conducting the user test in this pandemic situation was a bit challenging, because everyone wanted to maintain social distancing.

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This was quite new to me. It was challenging but rewarding, too. For prototyping I used PowerPoint which is not very flexible tool. The course was well structured.

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In general the process went through reasonably well. There were no challenges I could not manage to overcome. Probably mapping out good UX goals and collecting user data were the biggest challenges.
Overall I would improve data collection and do more testing.

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- It went well. There weren't any huge problems in the process all in all.
- Over the internet working with interviewees.
- Don't really have any improvement recommendations

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I think the process went quite smoothly since deadlines were weekly and usually on the same day, so you got used to the rhythm. However, I would've probably had the deadlines at the end of the week like Sunday, I feel like it would've worked better with the schedules of other courses. But other than that everything went well.

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In total, very well. We had a great team!

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Share your experience of the course, ideas, improvements, challenges etc.

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Share your experience of the course, ideas, improvements, challenges etc.

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Yes. User use the UI and how they experience using it creates a unique UX. Designing for UX depends much on the goals set for the project.

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I enjoyed the support, encouragement and motivation that I got from my teammates. Me, Ville and Niklas have been working on together also earlier and I think that this can be seen from the sufficiency and openness we have.

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- Yes. User interface is... well... the interface for the user to use the application. UX is then the subjective idea of the experience of usage
- Yeah. You try to answer certain problems or requests made by the interviewees

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I learned a lot. Feedback was nice.