Design Interactive is UC Davis’s human-centered design organization that offers hands-on projects, design workshops, and valuable resources for human-centered design. In the fall quarter of 2021, I joined their fellowship program to be a part of a group project to design a library reservation app for the UC Davis library.

Through this Design Interactive project, I learned the importance of teamwork and active engagement. Without staying on task and scheduling recurring meetings, I realized that it was difficult to track progress and keep everyone on the same page. Our team struggled with splitting up work due to the initial mood of working on everything together. While it is effective in hearing different opinions, assigning different roles would have been an efficient approach. For example, I found out towards the end that one of my team members excelled in designing UI layouts. Feedback for my next team project would be to discuss what team members excel at first and divide tasks based on that information.

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DESIGN PROCESS

1. Empathize: Survey
2. Define: Goals
3. Brainstorm: Ideation
4. Develop: Sketches & Lo-fi Wireframes
5. Prototype: Hi-fidelity Mockups

Final Deliverable – High-Fidelity Portotype