Reflections on NM4210

In defining the term User Experience Design, you get designing for user's experience. When I first came across this module, I had the presumption that user experience was confined mostly to online experiences i.e. designing a website that facilities good user feedback. However, the 3 months run proved otherwise.

As I joined this module only in the 4th week of school, much of what was covered before began as a blur to me. It was till reading up on slides did I understand that designing for user experience was not so much based on the physical, functional, and aesthetic capabilities of the product but even much more on the emotional aspects of the product. The essence of this appeals to me to quite a great extent. Understanding this, I reflected on my choice of products as a consumer and realized that, indeed, a product has to entice me emotionally for me to actual rate it an excellent purchase.

This module educated me from the designer's point of view and coupled with my personal consumer point of view, I achieved a better understanding in designing for user experience. This module left me with very practical skills that I believe would prove useful in my future endeavors.