So it has been a wonderful month full of new and exciting challenges.
Wanna know what I have been up to?
The basics
I am still in the beginning, so even though I am already a UX designer, I am still Jon Snow. I still know nothing. And so reading and watching tutorials have been helping a lot. I have read about the principles and elements of design, the laws of UX, and user research. I have started watching tutorials for Adobe XD and Adobe Illustrator, and played around these 2 tools.
UX Design Training
So there is this training procedure created by co-designers. Which is cool. I have something I could follow. Helps newbies a lot. I must say I have done most of them during the tester training (getting to know the company, it’s departments, the colleagues, the processes and what nots), but the cooler parts are much more interesting. Contains some pointers on designing, some good reads, tools that are mostly used and how-to-do-things in the company.
UX Design Hands-on
I am still not comfortable doing things on my own, good thing I have my buddy. He basically designs, and I bug him. We have done the UX Research Process together with the team. We have interviewed customers to get to know their current processes and find out where our feature might fit in. We have a couple of areas we could work on, so now we are mapping user journey to be able to create user stories.
Training’s assignment
I cherry picked a project in the company where I get to play around, as a UX Designer. The plan is to provide something to users, so that they can create and join internal events. It should be straightforward, manageable and practical. We will start small, then build around something that is already usable. I hope I can one day add this project to my portfolio.
There was another interesting project, maybe I’ll do that once this is finished.
There is still a lot to do, and so much to learn. Hoping for the best, always. Happy 1st of May!
Silke 