Samantha McDonald | PlanetTerp

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Samantha McDonald INST104 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/18/2025	I absolutely loved this class. If you’re into UX design or interaction design in general, she dives into what a designer really does beyond just making things look good. She genuinely gets you to start asking questions about the functionality and purpose behind things. She talks about different fields of design and explains them really well, in my opinion. The projects are cool, and the readings are definitely long, but you will definetely learn. Take this class if you want to really get your design thinking going.
Samantha McDonald INST104 Expecting an A- Anonymous 11/12/2025	She has no exams which is nice, but she has weekly quizzes that have insanely long readings or videos to watch. Expect around 70-100 pages a week of material that won't ever be used that much.
Samantha McDonald INST104 Expecting an A- Anonymous 10/01/2025	It's nice to not have exams and have the class only be a project based class, but the amount of reading you have to do for the quizzes is way too much for a 100 level intro class.

Samantha McDonald
INST104

Expecting an A
Anonymous
11/18/2025

I absolutely loved this class. If you’re into UX design or interaction design in general, she dives into what a designer really does beyond just making things look good. She genuinely gets you to start asking questions about the functionality and purpose behind things. She talks about different fields of design and explains them really well, in my opinion. The projects are cool, and the readings are definitely long, but you will definetely learn. Take this class if you want to really get your design thinking going.

Samantha McDonald
INST104

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
11/12/2025

She has no exams which is nice, but she has weekly quizzes that have insanely long readings or videos to watch. Expect around 70-100 pages a week of material that won't ever be used that much.

Samantha McDonald
INST104

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
10/01/2025

It's nice to not have exams and have the class only be a project based class, but the amount of reading you have to do for the quizzes is way too much for a 100 level intro class.