I was looking forward to it even though it deals with less hard core technical concepts and more touchy-feely psychological ideas. It made for an interesting change but one which I think I struggled with, not so much with ideas but in expressing answers that require a more humanities type answer. When you’ve been used to a right/wrong science and technical mindset it was a bit of a jar. The assessment involves a project evaluating and redesigning an existing interface and I’d chosen some software tools at work to redo since they needed doing anyways. However by the end of the assessments it was getting difficult to use the project to showcase answers you wanted to demonstrate for the tutor. Its hard to know your project will support all the assessment requirements at the beginning. I think they could improve the course by being more specific about interfaces to evaluate, a particular website for instance to ensure the project connects with the assessment process better. That aside it was deeply instructive in parts and has definitely raised my awareness of usability issues and how important it is not to ‘just guess’ but to test and experiment to find what works for users. Watching a real user use my software and talk about what they were looking for and thinking at each point was very interesting and the kind of tests I’d try to do in future. The exam was an utter nightmare. Really struggled to express in the fluffy language needed the points i wanted to make. Oh well a pass will do and given the time pressures during this course a fair enough outcome.