Digital Communications has advanced several skills far beyond what I thought was possible a year ago. After switching out of my biology major, it took what was left of my confidence and slowly started piecing it back together. I started learning many new things and applying them to my classes every day. These skills included: communications, design, business technology techniques, videography, user experience design and testing, and programming. I can now confidently say that I can program and entire website from scratch, edit video and audio, run different usability tests, apply the business model canvas, SWOT analysis, Porter's Five Forces and many other diagrams and tests to different businesses, design logos and promotions, and write effective papers that contain necessary information in a more professional manner.

    Human Centered Design is the idea of designing around the users. It includes researching your user, framing possible problems, brainstorming solutions, and finally prototyping the final solution. When researching your problem, the main focus should be on the user. Observing and finding the most important aspects of the redesign. Framing takes the most important findings and analyzes the possible problems or design flaws that users may experience and applying those flaws to the next part of the Human Centered Design process, brainstorming solutions. Brainstorming is sketching every possible solution that runs through your mind. No idea is a bad idea. Once finished with the sketches, you should look at all of them and take the best ideas from the sketches to make a final sketch. Finally, you prototype. Make a "rough copy" of what the design should look like and present it.