First Self Assessment:
Things I’ve learned:
- Learned more about UX and the design process
- How to create interview questions that will help design decisions
- How to conduct user interviews
- How to review and transcribe user interviews
- How to create personas
Achievement highlights:
- Helped create interview questions
- Created a post to get interview participants
- Conducted interviews with a fellow team member
Meetings: 6/4, 6/5, 6/8, 6/11, 6/15
Goals for the week:
Learn how to use Figma to create digital prototypes
Tasks I’ve done:
I’ve helped create interview questions to better understand the needs of STEM-Away users. I create a post to find interview volunteers and helped conduct interviews. I also helped transcribe interviews and debrief the answers we heard. I created an empathy map to understand users and created a persona for a usual non-technical user of STEM-Away based on interviews we conducted.
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Final Self Assessment:
Main Things I learned
- The importance of user research in order to create a product that will satisfy user’s needs
- How to ask effective and non leading questions during interviews to get the most feedback
- Effectiveness and importance of the design thinking process
- How to use Figma to create collaborative prototypes
- Importance of having different stages of prototyping (paper, low fidelity and high fidelity)
Top Achievements:
- Creating interview questions and helping conduct interviews
- Organizing interview responses into empathy maps
- Creating our main persona, Ash, using results from our surveys and interviews
- Creating the paper prototype for our direct messaging design
- Help combine two different designs to create our high fidelity prototype for messaging
- Presenting user research and paper prototypes to stakeholders
Skills Developed:
- Team communication and organization
- How to use Figma to create prototypes
- Using MURAL to create a variety of empathy maps, bulls eye diagrams and personas
- Minutes of meeting note taking
- Conducting effective user research through surveys and interviews
- Building costumer personas
Challenges:
The main challenge that I faced was finding a good meeting time that would work for both me and team mate when we were conducting interviews.
How I will use this experience:
This experience has taught me the importance of conducting good consumer research and most importantly has given me the tools to effective conduct it. Right now, I am thinking about pursuing a career in software engineering or front end development. The skills this experience has taught me will strengthen my other skills as a developer so that I may bring my users a product that they will truly enjoy and will want to come back to again.