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Dr. Palmer, the Associate Professor and Chair of the Technical Communication and Interactive Design (TCID) department, had a vision for a usability lab at Kennesaw State University (KSU). It would include workstations with: 

Another Acquia Engage is right around the corner! On October 26 and 27, Acquia hosts their annual event. The Engage 2021 conference will be fully virtual, just like last year, and free for all attendees. Register now (using MEDIACURRENT as your code) and join us!

At the beginning of a new project, functional requirements (a specification between a system’s inputs and outputs) are often expressed orally or in long-form writing. Although this is a good first step, more needs to be done in order to get the requirements to a place where they are expressed in clear, complete, and unambiguous terms.

Who remembers taking a typing class in elementary or middle school and learning about the concept of typing speed in words per minute, or WPM? There are speed demons... and then there are those who relegate themselves to the moniker of “chicken pecker,” slowly gazing over the keyboard to complete a full, written sentence.

In the agency world, applying the same logic to your website that you would for a client can be a daunting task. Nevertheless, the task isn’t impossible, and we are pleased to share how our content audit informed and continues to inform our content strategy, design, and development to evolve our site.

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For a web project to be successful, someone must ensure that the right solution is being delivered, one that is in line with organizational goals and stakeholders’ priorities. That’s where a Business Analyst comes in. When eliciting and analyzing project stakeholder requirements, the Business Analyst conveys what the desired solution will do both at a high level and at a detailed level, so all stakeholders have a clear, common understanding of how their business processes are organized and how these processes relate to one another.

Towards the end of my final semester in college, I was accepted into Mediacurrent as a creative design intern who would work at the company for 2 months. For this internship, I would have the opportunity to work on numerous projects and attend two networking events that would help grow my skills as a UX designer. Additionally, I would be assigned a list of objectives, a handful of which are listed below:

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