A Fun Way to Learn Web and App Design in Winter Club!
On the very first day, Nadia introduced the term of UI/UX and basic theory about the design process in the class. We also divided the class into 3 groups. I supervised for Group 1 (Janelle, Rania, Diva, and Arletta), Nadia for Group 2 (Shayna, Nawra, and Cathrine) and Dije for Group 3 (Pocut, Fayola, and Alaia).

As this was our first meeting, I captured their confused face when absorbing the lesson. I quite understood since this lesson was not relatable with their subject in school. However, as got closer to the group discussion, their understanding of the materials was clearer. The group discussion was about deciding which problems we wanted to solve for our final project. All the mentors tried to give independent will for the group to define their issue.

By the end of the day, I spotted a similar pattern on their selected problems. Overall they wanted to solve everyday difficulty! For the Group 1, they prioritized experience of getting lost in malls to be solved, Group 2 selected food & beverage offline branch long queue as their problem, and lastly, Group 3 attempted to dig up personal goals & planning issue.

To ease and stay enthusiastic absorbing the lesson, they indeliberately decided an issue that had significant relevance to their daily activity. It was also a plus for mentors since we could emphasize implicitly about the core trait of a designer, empathy.

🗂️ Gathering Data by Interview and Making Persona

Afterwards, on the next day, mentors presented how to gather data and make personas. The whole day was filled in with more practice materials than yesterday. At the beginning of the session, each team was assigned to plan a list of questions and directly interviewed it to other rookies outside their group members.

Subsequently, they discussed the interview result and made personas to define their targeted users. In this part, students allowed to make fictional characters based on their user target traits. They felt satisfied adding freely optional figures in the user personas! Group 1 added Trump photo in the persona whereas Group 3 added Susanti from Upin & Ipin. I’m glad that they managed to create a fun environment in the class while punctually finished the task 😃
['Larasti']
['Generation Girl', 'Ui Ux Design', 'Teaching', 'Winter Club']