Lisa Ratner

This summer I've been teaching UX to high schoolers through Digital Media Academy at Stanford and I have been blown away by their work. These are a few mood boards that my students designed that I thought really captured the essence of the sites they were creating. This one is for an online art sharing / buying / selling site: This was for a sports team website: I started the assignment off by first having my students write down 5-10 keywords that they want the user to think

This week at Stanford I taught high schoolers the Design Thinking process and UX principles. Many people have asked me what I have observed about this new generation of technology users and makers. While my class is a small and skewed sample size, here are some of my observations: Not suprising, when critiquing other websites, my class wanted to get rid of all the ads. However, their own sites were very business savvy. They were keen on enticing their users with their product