Clarken - UX & UI (Level 2) Pathway

Certificates Summer 2021 Certificates UX & UI (CA) 2021
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WEEK 2

  1. What I learned
  • Technical Area
    • UI/UX primary research methods
    • How to make affinity maps
    • Interview Conducting
    • Gaining more insight into the Bioinformatics Pathway project
  • Tools
    • Stem-away Platform
    • Discord
    • Notion
    • Google Drive
    • Zoom/Google Meet/Microsoft Teams
    • Slack
    • when2meet
  • Soft Skills
    • Conducting interviews
    • Teamwork and collaboration.
    • Networking
    • Time management
    • Project Management
  1. Three Achievement Highlights (Personal)
  • I effectively managed communication between my team and possible interviewees.
  • I was able to learn more about both the bioinformatics project and my own project through interviews
  • I was able to improve my communication skills by conducting an interview myself.
  1. Tasks Completed
  • Interviewing people from the Bioinformatics team for generative user research.
  • Understanding the team’s usability and development goals
  • Creating an affinity map from the collected interview data and brainstorming sessions.
  1. Hurdles:
  • Dealing with time zone differences for meeting up with team members and setting up interview times
  • Converting interview data into data
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WEEK 3

  1. What I learned
  • Technical Area
    • Journey-Mapping
    • UX-Data-Visualization
    • Persona-Building
  • Tools
    • Stem-away Platform
    • Discord
    • Notion
    • Figma
    • Slack
  • Soft Skills
    • Teamwork and collaboration.
    • Networking
    • Time management
    • Project Management
  1. Three Achievement Highlights (Personal)
  • I was able to learn more about journey-mapping and persona-building through individual research.
  • I was able to learn more about Figma and use it in a new way.
  1. Tasks Completed
  • Interviewing people from the Bioinformatics team for generative user research.
  • Understanding the team’s usability and development goals
  • Creating two personas with journey-maps for each of the two core stakeholders
  1. Hurdles:
  • My personal schedule was very hectic this week so I was not able to meet with my team as often as I would have liked. I had to make sure that I worked individually to stay caught-up on meetings.