This week the bulk of the work was my responsibility with the front end design. As a person more focused on the study of business and competitive strategy, my goal in this class was to develop me understanding of UI/UX much more. I read books about color palettes and human intuitive behaviors when it came to interacting with a mobile application. Designing and applying what I learned was a bit more of a learning slope.
The big part about front end design is being able to communicate with my engineers to understand what components they need. In order to do that we decided that I would just crank out the mocks with the features that the team discussed and ensure that every layer of the mock up is correctly labeled and isolated in the design program. Therefore that would make it easier for the engineers to utilize certain icons and backgrounds that I created.
After hours of starting, revising, redoing, then finalizing the mock ups. The engineering team and I met to discuss how the mocks are going to be used for the actual front end design. The meeting was sometimes frustrating as parts of my mock were scrapped in order to simplify the product into a minimal viable product. It was difficult to see my vision and effort decrease but it made me understand the importance of communication with the engineers. Overall the meeting and our approach was effective and we came out of the meeting ready to finalize our MVP!
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