Week: August 4th
Overview of Things Learned:
Technical Area: Learned user research methods and conducted user interviews, made personas, empathy maps and affinity maps,
Tools: Mural for brainstorming, affinity maps, stakeholder maps, diagrams, Slack for collaboration, STEM-Away Forum for announcements
Soft Skills: Communication, time management, and collaboration
Achievement Highlights: Gathered insights from user interviews, learned how to narrow down a problem, learned how to understand the user through personas and empathy maps
Meetings attended: 7/16, 7/17, 7/23, 7/24, 7/28, 7/30, 7/31, 8/4
Goals for the Upcoming Week: narrow down the problem more, complete 2 low fi prototypes and narrow it down to one solution, learn how to make a prototype interactive on figma,
Tasks Done: helped created stakeholder map, interviewed stemaway users, helped create personas, affinity map, and empathy map, brainstormed solutions