This website is written by Mike Sinkula (et al.) and is dedicated to his studies in Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. 
Income Inequality »
Key Words: Income Inequality 99% v. 1% Rich v. Poor Great Depression Recession Trickle Down Economics Housing Crisis Vulture Capitalism Two Americas Republican v. Democrat Sample Images: Concept Composite:
The Language of Hair »
Whether people are intentionally or unintentionally, consciously or sub-consciously trying to convey meaning or association through their hairstyles, chances are good that we as observers intentionally or unintentionally apply meaning to peoples hairstyles as a way to make sense of the world around us.
Visual Taxonomy »
Here is your chance to construct images that explore the compositional principles of design, refine your ability to critically examine your visual environment, and begin to develop a taxonomy of all visual language.
Usability Testing Demonstration with Camtasia »
Camtasia has the right tools for creating professional screen videos… without formal training. With Camtasia, you can easily generate effective videos that help you train, teach, sell, and more.
Usability Testing Project Plan for Seattle Central Community College »
Introduction This usability testing project is designed to improve our understanding of how students at Seattle Central Community College (SCCC) actually use the college’s website and where they feel like the website is not meeting their intended needs. The main usability issues that we will be addressing with this usability testing project will be the [...]
Usability Testing Project Proposal for Seattle Central Community College »
Our class project group will be conducting a series of usability test on the Seattle Central Community College (SCCC) website. This website serves as an informational gateway for current, past and potential students as well as serving as a communication portal for faculty and staff.
Reading Response: Design Thinking »
In the article, Design Thinking, Tim Brown presents the idea that thinking like a designer can help one to better develop products, services, processes and strategies. He goes on to argue that designing a product alone without a marketplace does not utilize the full spectrum of a human-centered design approach. According to Brown, only by [...]
Protected: Research Activity Report: Usability Testing with User Sketches »
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Research Activity Report: Heuristic Evaluation »
Our team chose Heuristic Evaluation as our second research activity to improve our understanding of User-Centered Design for the file sharing application SugarSync. Heuristic evaluation is another discount usability engineering method that is perfect for quick, cheap, and easy evaluation of a user interface design. It involves having a small set of expert evaluators examine the interface and judge its compliance with recognized usability principles (Nielsen, 2005).
Research Activity Report: Wants & Needs Analysis »
Our group chose to conduct a Wants & Needs Analysis for our first activity to improve our understanding of User-Centered design for the file sharing application SugarSync. We chose the Wants & Needs Analysis as our first activity because it is an extremely quick and relatively inexpensive brainstorming method to gather data about user needs from multiple users simultaneously (Courage & Baxter, 2005).