Avery McGinley

I will be working with various Accenture clients to help develop business strategies and new content depending on the type of project.

 

UX degrees from Purdue give their students the necessary skills to be a well rounded leader and peer by the time they walk across the graduation stage. UX is also very close meaning we have smaller class sizes than most majors and I really enjoyed that because I got to know that people and professors in my classes. Adding on to that I got to see what other people were interested in and got to see all that I could do with a UX degree.

 

I think all the professors in the undergraduate UX program have helped me a lot. They have pushed to do stuff that I wasn’t comfortable with at first and worked with me to guide my to figure out the best course of action when I need. They have helped me prepare for interviews and helped me with my design projects. Overall they have people I can rely on to ask for advice or to bring a smile when are in our studio classes.

 

All of my experience studios have helped a lot with real world expectations of a designer. We worked with real companies on a project for a semester and we all do that minimally four times in our college career. So we get a variety of experience before we graduate. Personally I have done everything from research reports to high fidelity prototypes and I feel confident in my abilities to do that after graduation.

 

I really loved my senior design project. This was conducted in my last learning studio, Studio 5: Specialization. I liked it because one I got to choose what my final project was going to be and do something that I love to do which was physical interaction design. The class was also cool because I got to see what everyone else in my cohort was planning on doing for their specialization.