D+TM #28 Julia Fortuin

D+TM #28 Julia Fortuin

What: introduction to User Experience – UX
When: Monday 13th of April, 12-3pm
Where: Parsons Paris room 500
Who: Julia Fortuin

In her workshop Julia Fortuin will give in introduction to User Experience (UX). UX is an ever developing common concept in the development in web design, but can be applied at any kind of creation. After treating the principles of evaluating UX, students get to create a user test themselves and experience what it is like to have their product tested.

Julia Fortuin
Born in the United States and raised in the Netherlands, Julia Fortuin has an international career in web and communications. Holding a master’s degree in New Media and Digital Culture, she has run many web projects with a multilingual and cultural angle. Julia discovered UX by running usability tests for international governmental institutions, where she raised awareness on citizens’ need for accessible information. This led into a wider discovery into the field of UX and measuring web performance. Julia currently works in the private web sector in Paris as an analyst / content creator.