Anat Szendro Sevilla

This professor has taught: HDCC208F, INST367, INST398J, INST408V
Information Review
Anat Szendro Sevilla
HDCC208F

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/05/2024
This class was super informative and very interesting. Anat is super understanding and genuinely wants to see her students succeed. It’s clear that she cares a lot about UX design and visual communication. Homework can be lengthy but is often interesting/fun. This class is long and can get tiring but we’re given a break. I definitely recommend taking a class with her! Wonderful person and brings great warm energy to class :)
Anat Szendro Sevilla
HDCC208F

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/05/2024
She was a very engaging and passionate lecturer. You can tell she truly cares about her students. Workload was unexpectedly heavy/time consuming throughout the semester, and sometimes felt like busywork, but overall the course was definitely manageable. I feel like I learned a lot about design and UI/UX through these assignments even if they didn't feel necessary in the moment. Her course was very beginner friendly and she is definitely the type of person I would feel comfortable going to for extra help if I was confused on an assignment.
Anat Szendro Sevilla
HDCC208F

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/05/2024
She really cares about the content and the students. Grading is really relaxed, which allows you to focus on the subject!
Anat Szendro Sevilla

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/08/2024
Went in expecting the worst, but she was actually great! Very knowledgeable about UX design and gives great points during class. I don't know what happened in past semesters but she was lovely for this semester. The class is mostly studio time for designing on Figma, brainstorming, and a final design project.
Anat Szendro Sevilla
INST367

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/20/2023
She is an understanding and chill professor, and she is clearly very knowledgeable about UX design. This course does a great job of instilling UX principles and design thinking. However students were sometimes confused about assignments and how to use figma. A great emphasis on the theoretical but not much on the technical
Anat Szendro Sevilla
INST408V

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
12/14/2023
The class isn't structured well. Her lectures did not help at all with the actual visual design projects. Everything I learned about visual design I learned from my own interest and research, not from this class. The grading also makes no sense, it is so subjective even as a course meant to develop your fundamentals, and her comments on your designs clash with her TA's comments more than half the time. She's nice at the beginning, but progressively got worse as the semester went on. I don't recommend her.
Anat Szendro Sevilla
INST408V

Expecting a C
Anonymous
12/03/2023
As per the other reviews I think that the class was kinda confusing, I wouldn't recommend taking her.
Anat Szendro Sevilla
INST408V

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
11/29/2023
Great person, but terrible lecturer/professor.
Anat Szendro Sevilla
INST398J

Expecting a C
Anonymous
11/22/2023
I personally did not find her lectures to be interesting, usually she would just read off of a screen and the whole class was confusing to be quite honest.
Anat Szendro Sevilla
INST398J

Expecting a B
Anonymous
11/21/2023
As the others have mentioned, her lecture style was very poor and had almost no outlines/requirements for assignments, dont take her.
Anat Szendro Sevilla
INST408V

Expecting an A
Anonymous
11/19/2023
Very disorganized course and professor. Strongly advise to not take her.
Anat Szendro Sevilla
INST408V

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
11/15/2023
While Professor Anat Szendro Sevilla (she/her) puts effort into assisting students, the overall class structure leaves many of the students question. The lecture-studio format, where she reads off prepared slides and promptly departs, lacks engagement with the students and rarely ever interacts with them throughout the class. While her feedback on presentation days is helpful, the subsequent miscommunication arises when implementing revisions. Grad TA, Anne Badt, often contradicts Professor Sevilla's suggestions, resulting in a poorly structured and frustrating learning experience. This is directly related to the grading that is done in the course, trying to adhere to someones suggestions will result in losing points due to how another may look at your project. I highly suggest to stay away from the course, there are better UI/UX design courses offer in the iSchool and this is not one of them.
Anat Szendro Sevilla
HDCC208F

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
01/28/2023
I loved this class! It was such a contrast to my STEM heavy workload. It made me designate time in my schedule to be creative. It was fun to see what everyone else came up with based on her weekly prompts. The prompts are very interesting and fun to work on. The reading assignments aren't required to succeed and some of them are very poorly written. Anat is approachable, fun, and reasonable. You are expected to give one presentation, but you can pick the artists and date you present. She pretty much grades if you are performing satisfactory or unsatisfactory.