divya
June 22, 2021, 1:18am
1
Week 2
Things I Learned
Technical
How to make survey questions
How to make stakeholder maps and affinity maps
How to create a presentation on Figma
Tools
Miro
Figma
Slack
Discord
Trello
Soft Skills
How personas help show data
How to organize data into stakeholder maps
How to analyze responses from interviews and condense info in affinity map
Achievements
Learned about BI project and was able to start coming up with general idea of what our team will be doing
Communicated effectively on discord with team to organize presentation
Team conducted interviews, and we have lots of good information
Challenges
Many people were in different time zones, so we need to give people sufficient amount of time to complete tasks and respond to messages
Interview times conflicted with UX/UI meetings
Difficult to communicate with BI team without being invited to BI Slack channel
Tasks
Team completed interviews and we analyzed the data to get an idea of what the BI team wanted
Started affinity map
Created stakeholder map
Goals
Complete affinity map
Formulate a general idea of what we need to do to give BI team a good design
Organize ideas in order pf importance
divya
July 1, 2021, 5:31am
2
Week 3
Things I Learned
Technical
How to make personas
How to create better presentations on Figma
How to create journey maps
Tools
Miro
Figma
Slack
Discord
Trello
Soft Skills
How to use personas to get an idea about project needs
How to organize data into journey maps to place yourself in the shoes of the stakeholder
How to condense things I learned from interviews into concise bullet points to put into persona chart
Achievements
Separated tasks effectively and completed tasks efficiently
Successfully completed all interviews
Created thoughtful personas
Challenges
Many people were in different time zones, so we broke into smaller teams so we could work together on smaller parts of the project individually and then collaborate later
Was difficult to come up with new information to put into journey maps (much of the info was repetitive)
As many people don’t have BI experience, it was difficult to put ourselves in the position of someone who is working in BI
Tasks
Team finished all interviews
Organized data from interviews into personas
Used info from personas to create journey map
Goals
Create a story board
Come up with what the prototype of the app should look like
Figure out the most important features to include on app
divya
July 7, 2021, 9:09pm
3
Week 3
Things I Learned
Technical
How to create a storyboard
How accurately portray emotions in a user
Tools
Miro
Figma
Slack
Discord
Trello
Soft Skills
How to imagine a user’s experience using an app
How to organize app ideas in flowchart to convey ideas effectively
Achievements
Finally coordinated with BI team in order to discuss plans for app
Came up with general idea of app and what screens we’ll have
Finalized users’ wants and needs in app
Challenges
BI team and UX team could not find a time to meet where both sides were available, so not everyone was able to attend meeting
Difficult to draw on storyboard, because was online and drawing with mouse is hard
Story boards seemed very similar for both personas, so it was difficult separating the 2 into distinct story boards
Tasks
Finished Story boards
Come up with rough drafts for screens
Created flowchart of needs and wants for app
Goals
brainstorm slightly more detailed screens
organize needs and wants onto prototype
create low fidelity prototype
divya
July 19, 2021, 6:05am
4
Week 4
Things I Learned
Technical
How to create a flowchart
How to create a storyboard
Tools
Miro
Figma
Slack
Discord
Trello
Soft Skills
How to brainstorm ideas into sticky notes
How to connect ideas and most effectively
Achievements
created 2 storyboards for professor and student
completed flowchart that showed how the app will be
Challenges
struggled to figure out how to create flowchart, because completely new website
time zone differences
Tasks
Finished Story boards
Finished Flowcharts
Goals
create low-fi prototype
start planning most aesthetic and useful organization
divya
July 19, 2021, 6:11am
5
Week 5
Things I Learned
Technical
How to create low fidelity prototype
How to connect scenes in miro
Tools
Miro
Figma
Slack
Discord
Trello
Soft Skills
How to organize buttons on screen to make it efficient and effective
Working with team to come up with ideas
Creativity
Achievements
created normalization and quality control pages
finalized rough draft
Challenges
struggles to communicate with team members and work around everyone’s schedules
getting used to new website
Tasks
completed low fidelity prototype
Editted flowcharts more
Goals
create high-fi prototype
start finalizing ideas
divya
July 28, 2021, 10:15pm
6
Week 6
Things I Learned
Technical
How to do user testing
How to create a hi-fi prototype
Tools
Miro
Figma
Slack
Discord
Trello
Soft Skills
Organization
Teamwork
Creativity
Achievements
worked with BI team to hone details
Creating rough draft for prototype
Challenges
struggles to communicate with team members and work around everyone’s schedules
many different perspectives and ideas, learned to combine all ideas
Tasks
worked on hi fi prototype
changed some aspects as we began to learn more about BI
Goals
make personas
Work to perfect prototype
divya
July 28, 2021, 10:20pm
7
Week 7
Things I Learned
Technical
Making persona
Making journey map
Tools
Miro
Figma
Slack
Discord
Trello
Soft Skills
Analysis-- taking data from user testing
Teamwork
Creativity
Achievements
used user testing feedback to improve design
learned different ways if user-testing
Challenges
struggles to communicate with team members and work around everyone’s schedules
learning to simplify design to improve user’s experience
Tasks
perfected hi fi prototype
finished user-testing
made interactive frames
Goals
create high-fi prototype
start finalizing ideas