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TGIF! This week: hear Bennett’s and Vera’s adventurous story @HCII. Also: we "broke" into the industry and learned UX from an experienced practitioner.
👋 TGIF — Welcome to the fam!
Congrats to all newly admitted BHCI students. Welcome to the fam! This week, we invited Bennett Huffman, our aspiring design technologist who has been keeping track of his "Impossible List" since 2016, to share his learning experience. 🐣
Also, we connected with Vera Wei, a current MHCI student with an interdisciplinary background in Computer Science, Psychology, and Graphic Design, to give you exposure to a graduate student's adventure. 💃🏻
Going beyond campus, we "broke" into the UX industry with help from Ryan Azucena, an experienced and contacted experienced UX practitioner currently working in the EdTech space. 🧠
✌️ The Spotlight — Bennett Huffman
This week, our spotlighted student is someone who can't stop thinking about where he might help whenever a compelling problem arises. ✊
His "educated instinct" motivated him to join as a designer @ NOVID, a pre-exposure notification app to help prevent COVID, working with everyone from designers, coders, and even government officials! 😮
Introducing Bennett Huffman — An Information Systems and HCI major with a wide range of expertise in everything from interning at the Jet Propulsion Lab at NASA to how contract-tracing works. Keep reading to hear about the thoughts behind it all. 👇
👍 The Inquiry — Demystify MHCI Adventure with Vera
To everyone who just joined the BHCI family and who’s currently finalizing the schedule for your next semester, have you ever wondered...
How to leverage my background as I enter HCI?
How to kick-start internship preparation?
How to get the most out of HCI classes?
If these questions seem relevant, you probably shouldn’t miss this section! 💡
We invited Vera Wei, a student from the MHCI program with a background in Computer Science, Psychology, and Graphic Design, to share her answers by walking us through her graduate study adventure. 👣
👌 The Vision — Demystify UX Design with an Industry Practitioner
We are happy to see positive feedback on our content about UX internships. We also hear the emerging requests — “I want to dive even deeper into the industry!” 🤔
Well, finally, here it is! 🥳
From graphic to UX, from making design to leading & mentoring, anyone on this journey must have a lot to say about his experiences and mindset. This week, we have Ryan Azucena, UX Design Manager at DreamBox Learning, to talk about his experiences, challenges, and some suggestions for future generation designers! 🤩
🤌 The Supplements — An article a day keeps the doctors away
Radical Candor — Kick ass at work while embracing your humanity
Everything you should know about 8 point grid system in UX design
Corporate Vs. Design Agency: Perks And Pitfalls For UX Designers
🤟 The End — Stay tuned and dig in
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
While ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts, so easily missed, so easily compromised, so easily just squished.
— Jony Ive
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