# Ashley\_Yoon - UX & UI Pathway **URL:** \ **Category:** User Experience Principles Self-Assessments\ **Created:** [August 5, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](http://staging.stemaway.com/t/ashley-yoon-ux-ui-pathway/5618 "2020-08-05T18:35:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ashley\_Yoon](https://d3rzmptxz7fqzy.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/staging.stemaway.com/ashley_yoon/32/1084_2.png) [@Ashley\_Yoon](http://staging.stemaway.com/u/Ashley_Yoon)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](http://staging.stemaway.com/t/ashley-yoon-ux-ui-pathway/5618/1 "2020-08-05T18:35:44Z")
**Week:** starting week of internship (week of July 12) ~ week of Aug 2 **Overview of Things Learned:** **Technical Area:** - learned user-research methods, conducted interviews - learned how to interpret interview data & see trends/patterns - learned how to create empathy maps, personas, and affinity diagrams - learned how to use Mural **Tools:** Mural (for maps/diagrams/work), Slack (for communication with the team & leads), STEM-Away (for announcements), Zoom (for interviews, separate group meetings) **Soft Skills:** Communication, teamwork, leadership, adaptability **Achievement Highlights:** 1) conducted 3 user interviews & compiled main points into transcripts, 2) created first empathy map/personas/affinity diagram, 3) learned how to get insights from the interviews & define or narrow down the problem **Meetings attended:** 07/22, 07/23, 07/24, 07/30, 07/31, 08/04 **Goals for the Upcoming Week:** - create 2 sets of low-fidelity prototypes of our solution, figure out pros/cons of each prototype & come up with a single design - access Balsamiq/Figma and determine which tool to use **Tasks Done:** - interviewed users – at first, I wasn’t really sure which topic to focus on and how I should lead the interview in an unbiased way. However, with each interview, I got better at coming up with appropriate (follow-up) questions and got confident in how I conducted the interviews. - created empathy map, personas, affinity diagram – I’ve never created an empathy map/personas/affinity diagram before, so it was a bit challenging to figure out what made a good map/diagram and what didn’t. The feedback from the leads and work from my team definitely made the process easier and helped me think outside of the box more. - came up with HMW statement and solutions – it was hard narrowing down the problem/statement at first, but with help from the leads and my team members, we were able to come up with a statement and the appropriate solutions. - created a rough sketch of our solutions – one of the hurdles was being able to come up with a sketch with components that were 1) aesthetically pleasing and 2) user-friendly. My group and I communicated our ideas a lot and were able to create a rough sketch in the end. ---
**Author:** ![Ashley\_Yoon](https://d3rzmptxz7fqzy.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/staging.stemaway.com/ashley_yoon/32/1084_2.png) [@Ashley\_Yoon](http://staging.stemaway.com/u/Ashley_Yoon)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](http://staging.stemaway.com/t/ashley-yoon-ux-ui-pathway/5618/2 "2020-08-11T17:00:41Z")
**Week:** Aug 5 ~ Aug 11 **Overview of Things Learned:** **Technical Area:** - learned how to use Figma - learned how to build a low-fidelity prototype - learned how to create an interactive prototype on Figma **Tools:** Slack (for communication with the team & leads), Zoom (for separate group meetings), Figma (for creation of low-fidelity prototype(s)) **Soft Skills:** Communication, teamwork, leadership, creativity, problem-solving **Achievement Highlights:** 1) created 2 low-fidelity prototypes on Figma, 2) narrowed down & incorporated features of each of the 2 prototypes into one final low-fidelity prototype, 3) learned how to navigate around Figma and create an interactive prototype **Meetings attended:** 08/06, 08/07, 08/11 (I also attended all the individual group meetings) **Goals for the Upcoming Week:** - make/update LinkedIn accounts - learn & start working on a high-fidelity prototype - incorporate feedback from Debaleena & Benjamin when making our high-fidelity prototype and iterate more on our HMW statement **Tasks Done:** - created 2 prototypes – the second prototype was a lot harder to come up with than the first. I wasn’t really sure how to come up with a brand new idea that had features that were both user-friendly and simple while being completely different from our first prototype. However, my group members and I held meetings to discuss our ideas, and we were able to create our 2 prototypes in the end. - narrowed our 2 prototypes down to a final low-fidelity prototype – because we created 2 vastly different prototypes, we weren’t sure which features we should incorporate to make our final prototype better than the 2 already existing designs. The feedback from the leads definitely helped give me insights into what parts should be added, changed, or removed to build our final prototype. - presented our final low-fidelity prototype to Debaleena & Benjamin – it was a bit challenging and confusing when we were in the process of creating the presentation slides. I wasn’t really sure which features, problems, and solutions to focus on, nor was I sure which questions I should prepare myself for. However, with help and feedback from the leads, I was able to get a gist of the things we should include in our slides and familiarized myself more with our prototype, ideas, and reasons with my group members. ---
**Author:** ![Ashley\_Yoon](https://d3rzmptxz7fqzy.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/staging.stemaway.com/ashley_yoon/32/1084_2.png) [@Ashley\_Yoon](http://staging.stemaway.com/u/Ashley_Yoon)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 6:49pm UTC](http://staging.stemaway.com/t/ashley-yoon-ux-ui-pathway/5618/3 "2020-08-18T18:49:51Z")
**Week:** Aug 12 ~ Aug 18 **Overview of Things Learned:** **Technical Area:** - learned what a high-fidelity prototype is - learned what a mood board is - learned how to build a high-fidelity prototype - learned how to make and present an effective presentation **Tools:** Slack (for communication with the team & leads), Zoom (for separate group meetings), Google Meet (for team meetings), Figma (for creation of prototypes) **Soft Skills:** Communication, teamwork, leadership, creativity, problem-solving, adaptability, organization/planning **Achievement Highlights:** 1) created a high-fidelity prototype on Figma, 2) incorporated feedback from the leads, Debaleena, and Benjamin into our final hi-fi prototype & slides, and 3) iterated & finalized our HMW statement. **Meetings attended:** 08/13, 08/15 (I also attended all the individual group meetings) **Goals for the Upcoming Week:** - update my LinkedIn profile and connect with leads and other STEM-Away users - present our final high-fidelity prototype **Tasks Done:** - created our high-fidelity prototype – the feedback was pretty straightforward and creating the high-fidelity prototype itself wasn’t very hard. Instead, the challenge lay in choosing the colors for our prototype and organizing our buttons and designs. I tried looking up design ideas and colors online and eventually decided that the homepage would look better with the continuation of STEM-Away’s current colors. In terms of organization of our buttons, I sketched various potential layouts and reorganized them a lot before settling on the current layout in our hi-fi prototype. - edited our presentation slides – the feedback was also pretty straightforward for this one, but there were some comments and new problems that arose that we weren’t sure how to tackle. My group and I met often throughout the week to figure out how to create a clean, efficient presentation. - iterated & finalized our HMW statement – this task was a bit challenging as I wasn’t sure how to make our HMW statement better and wasn’t able to think broadly when constructing/editing the statement. However, Rachit gave me good feedback and helped finalize our HMW statement.