UX design blog created during MCAD’s Master of Arts in Graphic Arts and Web Design Program.

During my Master’s program at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design I created a UX focused blog shared on Instagram called UX Machina. I used this blog to make weekly posts analyzing a wide variety user experiences and providing feedback or suggestions for improvement.

It was a fun way to apply my design knowledge and learn more about the user experience, and does a good job of explaining how a UX designer thinks and the types of questions we ask!

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View fullsize @grazenorthloop Has some issues with their mobile site. If you select “Vendors & Bar” you can see photos and stories of the restaurants at Graze, but no menus. If you select “Takeout & Delivery” you are taken to a scre
View fullsize This is my first physical UX review on the channel! This #uxfail is the dryer unit in my building. If you can’t tell, in the inside of the machine on the back right is a grate that is apparently the lint trap for this machine. I have no idea wh
View fullsize This weeks #uxfail is @venmo. I don’t understand why the landing page is a social media feed of payments between other users. Why would anyone care about this?? It would be much more beneficial to the user to make the landing page the log of th
View fullsize It’s with a heavy heart that this weeks #uxfail goes to The Comics Journal. I’ve been a huge fan of comics most of my life and there’s really no better place to go for genuine, well-written articles about the comics world than TCJ.
View fullsize This weeks #uxfail is the @slackhq mobile app. If I have multiple slack boards why can’t I switch between boards by pressing the title of the board at the top of the sidebar menu? It is presented as if it is a button at the top of a hierarchy o
View fullsize The first image in this post is a grab from the @hbomax mobile app on iPhone. The only options here outside of controls for the show you’re watching is to Cast, AirPlay, or add Captions. Often when I’m watching a show I’ve seen befo
View fullsize I use the Mail app on my iPhone and I’ve never understood the function of this filter button. If I press it, it only presents my Unread messages. That’s useful, but if the icon is presented like a hamburger menu, why do other filtering op
View fullsize This is the “Reels” section of Instagram. I’m on Instagram every day at some point and I have no idea what the hell this is. The button to access Reels is bottom center of your screen, where the button you’d press to create a
View fullsize Opened the CPlus for Craigslist app and clicked on the menu button in the top left corner. This opens a drop down menu that takes up half of the screen. Took me 5 minutes to figure out the only way to close this menu is to click the icon again. Tradi
View fullsize Had an issue with my @google Chromecast this week! I have had a 1st gen Chromecast for a few years now and it’s been great for streaming content to my TV. This week I plugged my Chromecast into my TV and received this error message. Followed th