# Clarken - UX & UI (Level 2) Pathway

**URL:** <https://stemaway.com/t/clarken-ux-ui-level-2-pathway/8614>\
**Category:** UX & UI (CA) 2021\
**Created:** [June 30, 2021, 10:51pm UTC](https://stemaway.com/t/clarken-ux-ui-level-2-pathway/8614 "2021-06-30T22:51:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![clarken](https://d2nat51eddc6b4.cloudfront.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/46344e/32.png) [@clarken](https://stemaway.com/u/clarken)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2021, 10:51pm UTC](https://stemaway.com/t/clarken-ux-ui-level-2-pathway/8614/1 "2021-06-30T22:51:54Z")

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WEEK 2

1. What I learned

- Technical Area
  - UI/UX primary research methods
  - How to make affinity maps
  - Interview Conducting
  - Gaining more insight into the Bioinformatics Pathway project

- Tools
  - Stem-away Platform
  - Discord
  - Notion
  - Google Drive
  - Zoom/Google Meet/Microsoft Teams
  - Slack
  - when2meet

- Soft Skills
  - Conducting interviews
  - Teamwork and collaboration.
  - Networking
  - Time management
  - Project Management

1. Three Achievement Highlights (Personal)

- I effectively managed communication between my team and possible interviewees.
- I was able to learn more about both the bioinformatics project and my own project through interviews
- I was able to improve my communication skills by conducting an interview myself.

1. Tasks Completed

- Interviewing people from the Bioinformatics team for generative user research.
- Understanding the team’s usability and development goals
- Creating an affinity map from the collected interview data and brainstorming sessions.

1. Hurdles:

- Dealing with time zone differences for meeting up with team members and setting up interview times
- Converting interview data into data

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**Author:** ![clarken](https://d2nat51eddc6b4.cloudfront.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/46344e/32.png) [@clarken](https://stemaway.com/u/clarken)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2021, 10:59pm UTC](https://stemaway.com/t/clarken-ux-ui-level-2-pathway/8614/2 "2021-06-30T22:59:24Z")

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WEEK 3

1. What I learned

- Technical Area
  - Journey-Mapping
  - UX-Data-Visualization
  - Persona-Building

- Tools
  - Stem-away Platform
  - Discord
  - Notion
  - Figma
  - Slack

- Soft Skills
  - Teamwork and collaboration.
  - Networking
  - Time management
  - Project Management

1. Three Achievement Highlights (Personal)

- I was able to learn more about journey-mapping and persona-building through individual research.
- I was able to learn more about Figma and use it in a new way.

1. Tasks Completed

- Interviewing people from the Bioinformatics team for generative user research.
- Understanding the team’s usability and development goals
- Creating two personas with journey-maps for each of the two core stakeholders

1. Hurdles:

- My personal schedule was very hectic this week so I was not able to meet with my team as often as I would have liked. I had to make sure that I worked individually to stay caught-up on meetings.