🦆 Interaction Nerds by UXA | F23.01
This week from Interaction Nerds: Welcome back, Finding Your Personal Brand with Robert Managad, and Success through SCRUM!
👋 Announcements — Welcome Back!
Join us in gearing up to the start of a new semester, UXA Community! We hope everyone had a restful, fun break and is pumped for the year ahead! 💪
New year, new team! 🎉 Before we dive into this week’s issue, get to know the team behind Interaction Nerds for this year!
Content Heads
🐳 Alana Wu is a junior studying Decision Science and HCI. She loves to dance and paint random things 🌈!
🦝 Caleb Sun is a junior studying Communications Design and HCI! He likes to cook and sleep.
Content Team
😊 Eunice Lee is a sophomore studying IS (and HCI hopefully)! She likes to spend her weekends playing video games, listening to krnb, and exploring Pittsburgh.
🕺 Arin Pantja is a junior studying Fine Arts and HCI!
🥸 Kaitlyn Ng is a sophomore studying ECE (and also planning on HCI)! Outside of UX, she’s really loves DJ-ing on CMU’s radio station, discovering music, and watching movies.
🧸 Ahana Banerjee is a junior studying Business Administration and HCI! In her free time, she likes to try new foods, buy overpriced drinks, and hang out with her friends!
😈 Sophie McGrady is a senior studying HCI! When she’s not in class, you can find Sophie painting landscapes and waiting for Halloween to come🎃!
🚨 Announcements — Reach out!
This year, we’re mixing things up and we’re interested in what you’re interested in! Please fill out the form below 👇 with everything you’d like to see Interaction Nerds write about in future issues this year. Whether it be interviews, current UI/UX issues, or HCI class advice— let us know what you want to read about 📚!
🍎 Campus Compass — Introduction to HCI
Still in vacation mode? Here are some resources to navigating HCI courses, degrees, and advising to prepare you for a productive semester ahead!
🏫 School of HCI
🔗 CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute Website
📚 Courses
🌀 Finding Your Personal Brand with Robert Managad
Written and edited by: 😈 Sophie McGrady
💡 How can you set yourself apart from other individuals in your field? How can you best showcase yourself through your projects and work? Join us in a conversation with Robert Managad, a Senior Product Designer at Duolingo, as we dive into how to find and define your personal brand!
“A big part of differentiating yourself from other designers is understanding your own personal brand and being able to show that in both your work and how you communicate about your work.” — Robert Managad
🍀 Editor’s Pick — Success Through SCRUM
Written and edited by: 🧸 Ahana Banerjee
👀 You may have heard about SCRUM through team meetings, talks with interns, or through people’s LinkedIn Pages. But what is SCRUM? 🤔 Why does it seem to be growing in the UX Industry? Learn more about how SCRUM works and how it may help UX-ers below! 🔭
🙈 Fun - How bad can UX be?
This 👀 challenge on Reddit asked mischievous designers and developers and anyone with a desire to make the world terrible, really, to conjure up the worst volume input fields possible 🥲. Check out this geographic location-based volume slider and more here.
Who’s behind the scenes?
Thanks for reading this week’s Interaction Nerds by CMU UXA! The editors behind this week’s issue are 🥸 Kaitlyn Ng, 😈 Sophie McGrady, 🧸 Ahana Banerjee, and 🦝 Caleb Sun.
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