# Mharrison - UX & UI Pathway

**URL:** <https://stemaway.com/t/mharrison-ux-ui-pathway/5735>\
**Category:** User Experience Principles Self-Assessments\
**Created:** [August 9, 2020, 2:36pm UTC](https://stemaway.com/t/mharrison-ux-ui-pathway/5735 "2020-08-09T14:36:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![mharrison](https://d2nat51eddc6b4.cloudfront.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/46344e/32.png) [@mharrison](https://stemaway.com/u/mharrison)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 2:36pm UTC](https://stemaway.com/t/mharrison-ux-ui-pathway/5735/1 "2020-08-09T14:36:06Z")

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**Overview of Things Learned:**

**Technical Area:**

- Learned to use design software such as Figma, Mural, and Miro to learn and collaborate on affinity mapping, card sorting, information architecture and low fidelity prototyping.
- Experimented with giving interviews and survey questions to specific users for our technical area
- Learned to create personas

**Tools:**

- Figma
- Mural
- Miro

**Soft Skills:**

- Built up communication skills with people who were more experienced in this field
- Collaborated with teammates on projects

**Achievement Highlights**

- Before this internship, I had no knowledge of software such as Figma, Mural and Miro, but I was able to get comfortable using it and learned how to navigate through each one efficiently
- I was able to become a better communicator when it came to talking to my teammates. Communicating efficiently is not a strong suite of mine.

**Meetings Attended:**

July 15 – August 5

**Goals for the Upcoming Week:**

Finish low fidelity prototype

Update the aesthetics of the persona

**Tasks done:**

- Interviews
- Survey Questions
- Persona
- Affinity mapping
- Card sorting
- Information Architecture

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