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A lot of this week's lessons were about project management and groupwork. Interesting seeing what is recommended on a professional level. Easy to hear, hard to do.
Right now, the group project I'm working on is doing prototypes and usability test plans simultaneously. Usability testing is a really finicky thing. As far as I've figured out, you want to prompt users by telling them them the motivation/circumstances that the features are intended to be used for, and let them choose for themselves to use the features. You shouldn't tell them how to use the features directly.
There was this one video shown in class which said that "luck" in networking is made by being outgoing and showing up to more circumstances. I don't agree with the video entirely, but one thing that popped up was a challenge that every week, you should try to speak with one new person and with one old contact you haven't talked to in a while. I can be pretty bad at keeping up with people I meet sometimes, so that's definitely something to work on. Going to see whether this challenge is something I can do myself, at least for the second half of it.
Right now, the group project I'm working on is doing prototypes and usability test plans simultaneously. Usability testing is a really finicky thing. As far as I've figured out, you want to prompt users by telling them them the motivation/circumstances that the features are intended to be used for, and let them choose for themselves to use the features. You shouldn't tell them how to use the features directly.
There was this one video shown in class which said that "luck" in networking is made by being outgoing and showing up to more circumstances. I don't agree with the video entirely, but one thing that popped up was a challenge that every week, you should try to speak with one new person and with one old contact you haven't talked to in a while. I can be pretty bad at keeping up with people I meet sometimes, so that's definitely something to work on. Going to see whether this challenge is something I can do myself, at least for the second half of it.
