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8th week!
It was been a productive week and not so stressing one :) Finally, it went all smoothly and I am happy with my team and our project!
It was interesting to be able to talk to the client so we could have good insights and understand very well the current problem and keep working in the right direction. So yes, It has been a nice week and I am happy with our prototype.
And let’s enter in the last week....
7th Week - Survived
This week was kind of stressful as we have to present our work in front of a jury and submit our design report the same day. Plus I realised after Nevan’s feedbacks that was my UI had still some issues but I was really short in time.I still tried to make some changes but I will do them now🤓Never too late to improve your own projects.
But so far the presentation went very well, I could manage my time to talk in 10 minutes and receive really interesting feedback from Danae my jury. It was a chance to do this presentation with her because she shared with me really good and constructive insights that will help me to improve my work in the future!
Even though few moments of stress and a lack of sleep! I survived and I am proud of me!
The case study factory...
Why hiring me over other people?
Well this article was really useful because it gave me many interesting tips of things to do and not to do when writing case study and essentially it highlights how we can present our portofolio in a visible and efficient way for recruiters not to be bored and jump to other candidate.
Indeed, I got the fact that bootcamps are the new modern thing in the UX/UI industry and the competence is hard! So it’s CRUCIAL to find a way to distinguish ourselves from others.
I learnt that a good designer needs to focus less on the process and templates we have been taught if not more on his skills, passion, thinking and personality. And most important thing, we need to tell all the insights we learn from every steps of the study case. How are connected our design decisions to our problem? The goal is not only to show an amazing UI but to have a true connection between our problem from the research and the whole process who lead us to our design solutions !
6th WEEK -> Passed
What about this week? It was an interesting and challenging one ! Always more difficult and stressing when you are just by yourself. I liked the fact that I managed well my Monday and could do many interviews so It helped me to run my research on an efficient way. I like my idea I came up with and I am still working hard on it to be ready for the presentation due on Thursday :)
I am proud to see the progress I have done over the past weeks, it’s so rewarding and I am enjoying so far to see how does it reflect on my work.
Thanks again Nevan and Dani and Lina to make my IronHack experience very worthy !
Have a wonderful weekend, the campus is waiting for me to work on the project 😝!
New project is coming...
Next week, we have to run our final individual project and the mission is to build a product to help professional teams to get their work more effectively.
I will need to find different people, employees and managers to see how they work and how they complete a specific task in order to understand their needs.Based on this I will start creating my product. In this context, I will have to use contextual inquiry which is a tool that will help me in my research process.
Indeed, it will allow me to analyse the user’s behaviour, his main pain points and needs during the process of the task completion. Collecting data in the user’s environment will give me some accurate insights and the user will do it naturally so it helps to get real information.
I will try to do it remotely with different companies ( small and big companies) to see the differences during the process. I think it would be hard though to record the computer screen of a person because for confidential reasons of the company, it may be not possible. But let’s see how it goes !
New challenge, accepted !
Half of the bootcamp ! 5th week done 👍
This week has been highlighted by ma partner of the project of redesigning a website: Mireia !!! My glow of the week. I really enjoyed working with her and it was very easy. I liked the project as it was the first time we were working on a big screen and doing the prototype on a Desktop size. The audit part also was really interesting, it’s actually funny to see how many things are not going well for some websites.
The challenging part was the coding HTML and CSS part, I actually felt a bit lost and was not ready mentally to code a whole page. I think it helped to be 2 on this project as we really could help each-other to build together something “correct”. Luckily we received some help from Web Dev to help us with the responsive website! They did a great job !
I feel proud because we managed to do everything on time, our plan was properly respected and the presentation went well ! Thanks all !
4rd week...still alive 😇
This week has been very intense and tiring but I was proud of the work I have provided.
First individual project with a Hi Fi prototype to do, I have done my best but I really saw where I could improve. I am very happy on my IronHack experience.
It’s a lot of new information to process but the result was ok :)
I hope my Figma skills will improve this week because I want to do a better prototype next time. And some more usability tests would be great to run in order to improve my final project.
I need more sleep but overall it has been a very challenging and interesting week !
E-learning application
This week I will work on a new project in which I will be designing a new e-learning app to be launched on both Android and iOS.
My user persona is Alicia, a 31 years old international Buyer at Mango who is energetic, ambitious and hard working. She learned more about the business and today she is very interested in moving onto the Marketing Team in her company but her manager told her she needs to improve her digital marketing skills. She will have to find time in her busy schedule to learn these two new skills: digital marketing and growth hacking.
Alicia needs an e-learning app with short and flexible lessons and a professional content up to date. She’s an iOS user, so I will first design the app based on iOS patterns and then adapt it for Android. Here are the few steps I will have to respect:
1) Moving between screens
I will use the arrow on the top left corner as the back button.
LinkedIn on iOS where theres a small arrow to go to the previous screen:
2) Navigation patterns
Tab Bar
About the navigation between different areas of an app I will use tabs on the bottom. And I will also label the icons on the tab row. The tab bar won’t contains no more than five destinations.
Sections are organised as tabs on the bottom of the app on iOS:
Primary navigation
The primary navigation elements should be in the foreground. If I use the hamburger menu, it should be used only to store functions that aren’t daily tasks performed by the user.
Swipe from left-to-right to go back a screen
I will keep the gesture of swiping from left to right in my e-learning app to go back.
3) Button styles
I will respect the iOS button styles ( most often text in lower case for iOs.
Left Android and right iOS:
4) Action buttons
Action Buttons are those that allow the user to take some action. Some of these buttons may have higher priority or visibility than others. I will follow the same iOS pattern place action buttons on the top title bar.
Twitter app’s “Tweet” buttons. Left: iOS ; Right: Android:
5) Standard controls
Date picker
I will use the slot machine reel-style date selector used in iOS.
Left — standard iOS controls; right — standard Android controls:
3rd week in IronHack!
Another challenging week! I really liked the project this week as we had to work with an existing app and integrate our flow in UberEats app ! Was really cool to see that our feature integrated pretty well with the existing app! With the Hi Fi prototype it’s really amazing to see the result you can reach. We also included some animation we learnt with Figma, so it was interesting to put in practise what we learnt!
Regarding my team, I worked with Carina and Enrica, and it went very well, I think we had a good communication between us and a good balance in the work division. I really enjoyed sharing this project with both of them and was happy of the result !
Third week ✅
Learning to see
This article about Learning how to see https://ia.net/topics/learning-to-see was really interesting. I liked the part about the fact that excellent designers are not just developing a sharper eye if not they have this power to understand and design things as a customer would do. It’s really interesting indeed to think that no one is seeing the things with the same eye, it all depends on who we are, what we do, what we are interested in, what we like...
I learnt that they are not good or bad designers as designing it a complex process which requires many skills which are difficult to compare, it’s all about perspectives. I really liked this quote from Paul Klee “See with one eye, feel with the other. “, for me it was the perfect definition of a designer !
Second week at IronHack :)
Second week ✅ How do I feel? Still great ! It was our first project alone and it was a big challenge for me. It went well and I am happy with the idea I came up with, I think it’s actually cool and rewarding than you can in one week potentially improve people’s life with an idea of application that will solve a problem for them.
Even though I was proud I also realised during the presentation that I had a lot to improve especially regarding time management ! 8 minutes is so fast ! It was very useful the feedbacks we received from the schoolmates and Nevan, I know now the things I should avoid or do for the next project.
We discovered the CRITS this week, and It was really interesting It helped me to improve my prototype a lot. So YES Overall, even though I felt a bit of lack of sleep, I was really excited and I’m really curious about how is it going to the next Feature project !
To be continued...
FIRST “CRITS”
And no “crips” as I first thought. Really interesting process and organised with a time limit for each section. First, 3 minutes to present your idea is so fast, so I understood you have to pretty much expose your main problem you found from your research, you choose a scenario and a user persona and you jump into the presentation of your prototype. Indeed the goal of CRITS is to receive constructive feedbacks from your colleagues not to talk about the research part. It’s really complicated no to talk or explain your prototype during the next steps, but I guess I will get use to it :)
I realised that being on the other side and giving feedbacks or asking pertinent question to your colleagues is difficult as well. But so far, it helped me to get good suggestions and I did some modifications to my design process according to them. Let’s see what will happen to second CRITS !
My first week at IronHack !
Hi ! First week at Iron hack ✅ So far, I can say I am super happy and my expectations match with my first week’s experience. Not an easy decision to leave work and go back to study something you never studied before... But it’s a project I had in mind for a long time and had all the covid pandemic time to think about it.
I felt good all along the week and I am happy to see we learn fast and the work we have presented on Friday wit my team was really good for the skills we learnt in 7 days. I really had a good connexion with my group and it helped us to work together and came up with an interesting idea of prototype. I am also curious to work with another person to see how does it go. The people in the class are great so it makes everything easier. This week, new project is coming and it’s individual so let’s see how I am going to manage it ! Kind of stressed but I’m sure it will all be ok.
I want to highlight that Nevan is a great teacher and Dani and Lina helped us a lot with the material and the homework. It’s all clear and I like how are organised the class. Let’s continue and stay focus !
First Day at IronHack
Today, finally came the day I was waiting for a long time ! I had a great day, I think it was a very good activity “My name is Oscar” as it actually allowed me to remember everybody’s names (which I thought, wouldn’t be possible on the first day). It’s very interesting to share a class with people from different nationalities and with different background... Diversity is always a good thing and I am very happy I can spend 9 weeks with these people. Furthermore, I am sure we will get to know each-other better when we will work in group ! We have our first team work this week and can’t wait to start !
So far, I can say I took the right decision to do this UX/UI bootcamp and it has just started ...
Hi There,
Well, a quick post to introduce myself, I am Faustine I am 31 yo, I am french but it’s 7 years I fell in love with Barcelona. So here I am, living my best life in this beautiful city, but one thing was missing though... being totally fulfilled professionally. I worked in 3 different companies these last 7 years, each experience was interesting and allowed me to develop different skills ; I started to work for an IT company to end up in a Social company going through a Retail company...
For several years, I have been attracted by web/application design, indeed every time I am downloading an app or surfing via a web page, I automatically analyse everything from the user’s flow to the design. Very often, I am thinking how could I improve an app/web page making it easier or looking better for me or any other user. From here, I started reading articles about UX/UI design and directly was passionate about it. The “research part” in order to understand how think a user and the “design part” to make the object look good are both things that I am interested in !
Today, I can’t be more excited to start a Bootcamp during 2 months where I will learn everything about UX/UI ! My ultimate goal will be to work in freelance, but first of all, I need to learn and practise again and again... until I feel confident and acquire all the needed skills :)
IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO LEARN !