This article looks at an educational video service, Hooked On Learning (name has been changed), and my attempts to improve the product through various UX strategies and design techniques. Hooked On Learning is a service that provides video-recording software for educational programs. The basic functionality of Hooked On Learning is…

In the following document, I establish a proposal for a Goblin Valley National Park app. Originally I set out to create an app that highlighted the wonders of Bears Ears National Monument. …

In 2021, the Theremin, a magical instrument played without being touched, turned 100 years old. To celebrate this ethereal instrument, I put together a working kiosk that highlighted both the creator as well as those who have utilized the theremin in their musical endeavors. …

For those who haven’t been following the news, major changes are happening at Utah Valley University. From the new business building to the new CET Building in planning, UVU is on the go! While looking for a project to test QR codes on, I learned the Woodbury Art Museum was…

What happens when you combine a hand-coded website from early 2010s with the needs of a modern and ever-growing student body? Enter Guardian Charter School (name has been changed). Guardian Charter School’s website was faced with many issues. The website was hand-coded using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with no CMS…

The following is a three-part article. This article discusses the design and development of the College of Engineering and Technologies (CET) website. Five designs were created by various teams. The second part of the article focuses on how these designs were assimilated and established as a style guide. …

This is a three-part article that focuses on the creation and implementation of UVU’s College of Engineering and Technology (CET) website. In part one, we focused on the creation of a prototype highlighting the various needs of the CET stakeholders. This section looks at the merging of five prototypes into…

Goblin Valley Case Study Alex Strasburg For DGM 2270, I decided to focus on Goblin Valley State Park. Originally, I had planned on focusing on Bears Ears National Monument. My desire to focus on Bears Ears was mostly political, as I consider the sanction of the land as an attempt…

For my podcast, I decided to focus on interviewing past graduates of UVU’s web design and development program to see what they thought of the program, the in’s-and-out’s of school work, what it was like to graduate, the trials of job hunting, and finally what it was like to be…