A Professional Designer Reviews the LISTA App’s Progress — As part of my capstone experience, I get to have my work reviewed by a professional in the real world. I had the opportunity to meet one-on-one with the digital product designer, Devon Hirth, from the Mayor’s Office of Economic Opportunity. As our scheduled meeting time came closer, I became…

Peer Reviewing One of my Classmates' Capstones For the past seven weeks, I have been so focused on the LISTA app that I forgot to look around me and see what my peers are up to! …

LISTA’s Project Statement — A project statement typically consists of one or two sentences that describe the scope of a project. Although a short description, it explains your ideas to the world. A project description extends a project statement; It goes more in-depth into the project’s target market, goals, and possible solutions to problems. …

Developing the LISTA app’s target types — Developing personas is a helpful tool to understand your users’ experience with your product. …

Conducting Competitive Research on my Capstone Concept — My third week of Capstone has kept me busy. I’m happy to say that I want to design an app that assists first-generation students apply to college for my capstone project. For now, it’s a broad topic; however, I conducted competitive research to zero in on what to incorporate in…

Starting from Scratch on Week 2 — Capstone, a course that all senior art students must complete to design and create an elaborate project that captures the skills they have learned throughout their college experience, and I just finished my second week of it. …

It is currently my fourth year as an interactive design student at Maryville University. My past three years of studying graphic design, web design, coding, typography, and all sorts of art mediums have led me to this moment in my college journey: capstone. And I plan to include you in…

In middle school, did you ever play the NASA exercise Survival on the Moon? Where you are an astronaut who lands 200 miles away from the mothership, and now you and your team’s survival depends on your ability to rank the importance of the remaining objects correctly. …

It is hard to go out into the world during times like this and explore museums' wonders, but it is not impossible. Technology has advanced so great that we can now virtually tour exhibits and museums with Google’s Arts and Culture App. …