Journal

My Project Journal – UX

This blog is part diary, part portfolio. Often, the project's final products are not published yet – I hope you enjoy the process and the journey through the projects!

The journal is not currently translated, posts appear in the language that makes the most sense in context.

Stage 2: Experiments

Now that I understand how microcapsule paper works, it’s time to get a bit nerdy with material science.

Most blind students in Austria attend regular schools, so they will have sighted people around them. This is why we decided to try and make the materials work better for this integrative approach by including the text in schwarzschrift (literally black print, I don’t think this term exists in English so I’ll stick to the German) too. Schwarzschrift here, for us, is red though. There’s technical reasons for that, but maybe I need to explain how swell paper works first.

Pages of swell paper with test lines in different line styles and red writing in different shades that has stayed flat in the swelling process — Testing different shades of red by applying different heat settings.

Experiments, Research, UX, Visual Design, Accessible Design, English, Graphic Design, Printing, Tools & Technology

Stage 1: How to read Braille

Pages of swell paper with different surface patters consisting of dots, lines and crosses — A number of pages with different surface patterns and intersections of lines and patterns

My new design project is interesting. It mostly consists of maths and programming, combined with social research. After that, finally, some layouting and typesetting – but the final product will not necessarily look pretty. That’s alright though, since it’s not made to be looked at: We are working on teaching materials for blind and visually impaired students. More specifically, a graphics catalogue to be used in high school maths education.

Experiments, Research, UX, Visual Design, Accessible Design, English, Graphic Design, Printing, Tools & Technology

What is a conference?

For the Changing Worlds Conference, we tried to experiment with the format of an academic conference. We learned as we went, and were definitely a lot more adventurous in the second year of the event.

The whole experiment started when a group of master’s students with a wide range of disciplinary and personal backgrounds came together to imagine and later execute the conferences. We noticed early on that we all had different expectations for what a conference might look and feel like. And being social scientists, we decided to explore what that might mean.

Experiments, Research, UX, Conference, English, SocialTech

conferencing (or: why aesthetics matter)

I have been incredibly busy lately, but last week the 2nd installment conference I have been organising took place. And we made lots of decorations. Paper puffs!

Research, UX, Visual Design, Conference, English

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