#uxuiarthur

After a long, long & long slumber I finally woke up to join (for the third third time) the UX/UI cohort, since Covid-19 seems too annoying to disappear or give us a break. Thank god the weather is at our side, right??!!....

For this week, and after a quick intro on Monday to getting to know each other, we decided to start the project. My team was my up of Carla and Janine and our first goal was to fins a local small e-commerce business or organization to propose a redesign. After the options, our final choice was to redesign the “Tennis Club Premià de Dalt” website and mobile version. 

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The first step we decided to do was to analyze the current website to find some usability problems (which we found a lot) and to define some structure inconsistencies. After that analysis we proceeded to carry out the card sorting to observe what the user's browsing perceptions were and, thus, be able to establish a correct navigation criteria for the future redesign of the website. After all the results obtained, we decided to plan a redesign with much simpler and more logical navigation. The next step was to carry out the tree tests through which the users looked for specific information in the new redesign and, thus, to be able to draw final conclusions on whether the process that had been carried out had been correct or whether there were still some changes to be carried out.

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The second step was to focus on the layout and find a new style for the website. For that we decided to create an style-tyle where we decided the approach we were gonna follow to do the redesign of the brand. The most important thing was to do a 180º change on the branding, keeping it simple and staying away from the coldness of the dark colors. Since the club offers a lot of activities, we decided to focus on some brand attributes reflecting that. The most important was to be Family-friendly, it was a must for us. After that we chose a color palette that resembled those attributes and focused our attention on a communicative minimalist design.

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After that we centered our attention on the mobile version to see how things will translate to that. We made some clear rearrangements in terms of typography sizes and images display, but the overall feedback we got was really good. We were happy to see that the Family Friendly attribute was translating well across platforms and screens. 

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The next part was centered on the desirability test to see the perceptions of the users and their emotional or attitudinal responses to our prototype's visual designs. Thankfully for us, Family friendly (18/72) was the most chosen attributes of them all, followed by Lively, Appealing and then Inviting and fun. 

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The last part was the coding part where we had to program our home page and the responsive version for mobile using HTML/CSS. This was not our area of expertise so we could use the help of 2 students from Web/Dev. Thanks to them, we finally managed to get a pretty close website coding design from we have envisioned with our design. 

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We work very hard for this project, even though we had to sacrifice some sleep hours. We learn how to trust each others’ process so we could divide and conquer all the challenges Nevan is throwing at us. BRING EM’ ON!

Thanks To Janine and Carla for the great teamwork and be willing to learn and receive graphic design tips. And also, thanks to Sergi and Marina for the great effort they put helping us to do some coding.

Today me and 19 future colleagues started the UX/UI Bootcamp at Ironhack Barcelona 🤟

In the morning we got to know each other and the Ironhack team and in the afternoon we got started in Design Process and Usability Heuristics. Although it was a lot of information and being in a virtual space made things little harder, it was a good day! So far, Nevan and Helena seem like a great team and they did a great job adapting our classes and activities, I loved getting to know tools like Hypothesis and Mural :)

Also excited to start working on our new project: There’s an app for that! 

I’m Paula, a libra Brazilian living in Barcelona. Someone who always walks with paper and pen, not a great dancer, but quite enthusiastic when dancing, and curious to the soul.

I graduated in architecture, and it was through it that I identified with design. I worked for a while with the creation and production of furniture, and although I enjoyed it, I found myself increasingly unfulfilled. I wanted to create more, and that my creations would not only sell, but they would have purpose and that the human behavior would be a priority in the decision-making process.

Since then I have been researching and studying on my own design UX/UI, and now it is with enthusiastic that I can say that I will take a bigger step in the direction I want: I'm embarking on an Ironhack bootcamp!

Graphic Designer and Art Director living in Barcelona.  I have always said that the minds of creative people are like a rocket. With the slightest encouragement, we take off and start the amazing process of creation something. I love bringing concepts to life through creative processes and, then, land them to start building projects and experiences. Being capable of making the ideas flow and transform them is just fascinating. Creativity allows us to find almost unlimited paths that lead us to the same destination.