text: In the Experience Design research group we focus on the quality of user experience when designing products, processes and services. This involves designing with users and/or measuring the user experience.
  Staff specialising in Co-Design work within varied community settings, both internationally and locally to better understand the specific design problems experienced by people. By designing with people rather just for people we, together, produce solutions that respect the needs of the end users at an authentic level. This method enables rich insights that steer key design decisions. We also teach and supervise co-design methods at both MA and PhD level.
  User Design is a multi-disciplinary research area that encompasses many other academic disciplines including psychology, cognitive science, architecture and product design. We bring together academics from various disciplines who work together with industrial partners to deliver design solutions that are both culturally relevant and impactful. Through our integrated approach we can both better understand and better design user experiences.
  Externally funded projects by staff in this research group are:
  Information and instructional design principles to enhance accessibility and inclusivity of course material on Blackboard VLE (Professor Maria Lonsdale)
  The impact of information design on recovery after bowel surgery. How can the design of patient information resources lead to improved comprehension and decreased anxiety? (Professor Maria Lonsdale)
  Cyber security communication campaigns. Identify how information and instructional design can increase the quality of cyber hygiene amongst the public (Professor Maria Lonsdale)
  Handling and communicating intelligence information (Professor Maria Lonsdale)
  The impact of information design on the quality of bowel preparation for colonoscopy screening (Professor Maria Lonsdale)