Experience + Interaction Design
This no-technology user experience (UX) design course emphasized hands-on, creative learning in a playful class environment. Students engaged in various activities, starting with sketching personalized notebook covers and conducting user interviews with their peers. Over the two weeks, students explored human behaviour, design principles, user flows and mobile wireframes. Activities included designing games to promote healthy habits, developing user journey maps, and conducting usability tests.
The course culminated with a collaborative project in which students, in small teams, designed the 'ideal learning experience.' All concepts were painstakingly sketched by hand. The lectures and activities focused on creativity, collaboration, and understanding user-centred design without relying on digital tools.
Taught by Karin Schmidlin
Karin Schmidlin is an educator and designer teaching human-centered design courses that focus on developing products, services and systems aimed at enhancing a human’s life.Karin holds a master’s degree in digital media (MDM) from the Centre for Digital Media. From 2012 to 2021, Karin was a lecturer at the University of Waterloo's School of Interaction Design and Business and the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business. She returned to Vancouver to pursue a doctorate in education at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and currently teaches UX courses at UBC's School of Information.
