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[nassedoh]

Third Week’s The Charm

Hey there people...

On this occasion I’m writing about my experience during the first 3 weeks of Ironhack’s UX/UI Design Bootcamp program and it’s been an absolute pleasure to be able to learn this much in such a short time along with such a diverse group of amazing and talented people.

This week went by like a breeze, between the classes, practices, assignments, and projects, it’s crazy to stop for a minute and look back on everything that’s been accomplished in just three weeks... it all seems so surreal, even though your body might remind you otherwise.

I must say I finally feel like I’m levelling up and feeling more comfortable with my  efficiency -if you can call it that just yet-, let’s just say I’m being more effective and maybe quicker in different areas.

This week we learned about User Flows, and how to evaluate them in order to enrich our competitive/comparative Benchmarking activities by mapping out existing products’ innovations and their respective introductions, evaluating competitors’ approach to the same tasks, and analyzing non-competitors apps with interesting viable features.

In regards to Figma and Coding, we learned about animations, interactions and transitions... Later in the week we dove deeper into interactive design and iterative design. We were also introduced to the concept of Proto-Personas during the briefing of our second solo project for next week, which consists in designing a mobile e-Learning app -Biting nails-.

Finally, the highlights of the week mostly reside with our results on the second team project, which if I’m not mistaken... I told you a little bit about last week, anyways... We had to add a new feature to Figma, and we went with a remote usability testing feature we named Figma Testing LAB. The teamwork was solid and fun, and I believe that our feedback and final results can attest to that.

That’s all for this post folks... Keep in tune for next week’s developments!

TA TÁ

[nassedoh]

Still mayhem in the 4th week...

This week was super weird as I started pretty ahead with the lo-fi wireframes iterations, business proposal and the branding statement and suddenly I crashed and burned a little on the sides, the way I like my arepas

It was in the middle of the week, right while transitioning from mid-fi wireframes to hi-fi ‘attempt’ that I got sucked in a Figma parallel universe and lost track of time. By the time I realized it, there was no way I was gonna make it to Friday alive and finishing both the Hi-Fi version of the prototype, and the presentation

I was so mad I couldn’t finished in time, I really wanted to show my concept to everyone, but my design fell short to a Hi-Fi prototype, it looked like a Mid-Fi wireframe with a splash of yellow (you would have to take a look at my design report on Medium to know)

All in all I’m pretty happy I got the chance to finish trying to portrait my idea for the app’s visual design along with its brand identity statement and business model proposal. Thanks to my own personal episode in Figmaland -or more like Wonderland- I feel more confident and experimental with Figma, which, if I am cautious enough in the future, will serve in my benefit in my eternal quest for mastering ‘Effective Time Management’

For this week and the next to come... PRIORITIZE AND CONVERGE

I’m gonna cut it short here and not jinx this week’s progress by saying anything else.

XOXO

PS: I’m having fun with Flex-Code...