UI/UX Experience Profile: Yichen Wei

Start with the unchecked action items in this issue, beginning with onboarding and UI/UX Community of Practice links. Review the linked People Directory, Google Drive, GitHub security, Slack, wiki, guides, and Figma resources, then complete the relevant checklist items; done is all applicable boxes checked and the issue closed.

Overview

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GitHub Practice Action Items

• Assign yourself to this issue. In the right side menu, click 'Assignees.' Select 'assign yourself'
• Assign this issue to the CoP: UI/UX: Project Board. In the right side menu, click 'Projects.' Select project 'CoP: UI/UX: Project Board' from the drop-down menu.
• Click 'Status' under the 'CoP: UI/UX: Project Board'. Select 'In Progress (actively working) radio button from the drop-down menu.

Onboarding Action Items

• Join UI/UX Github (Should happen during onboarding)
  • Confirm that you have been added to Github and make membership public by looking yourself up in our People Directory
• Get added to Google Drive (Should happen during onboarding)
  • Confirm your access by UI/UX CoP Google Drive Link
• Set up 2FA on Github (Should happen during onboarding)
  • Confirm 2FA Status by clicking here to go to your GitHub account>settings>account security and look for the disabled Enable button

UI/UX Community of Practice (UI/UX CoP) Action Items

• Join our weekly UI/UX Community of Practice meetings (Wednesday, 6PM PT) - use this Zoom Registration Link to join our weekly meetings.
  • You Email address should have an associated Zoom account in order to register
  • Add this Zoom weekly meeting to your preferred Calendar
  • Our upcoming meeting and schedule can be found here
• Join this UI/UX Slack channel for all communication/announcements. Introduce yourself on our UI/UX Slack channel
• Take a peek at our UI/UX CoP Wiki - for UI/UX specific resources!
• Check out the open Design roles, open Research roles, open Content roles we have available.

Guides Action Items

• Read the guide What is a Kanban Board by Atlassian
• All Hack for LA teams use Figma for our collaborative design. New to Figma? Learn more: Figma for Beginners videos 1-4
• All Hack for LA teams generally work in an Agile framework. Read more about Agile and how it relates to Kanban HERE.
• Additional viewing for designers, Jennie Yip, Reimagining Atlassian Design System
• Hack for LA Guides are currently being upgraded. This step can be skipped!

Project Experience Action Items

Design

• Wireframes - low fidelity
• Mockups - high fidelity
• Paper Prototyping
• Sketching

• Figma prototyping
• Figma components
• Figma auto-layout
• HTML/CSS

• Design evaluation
• Design System
• Group design ideation
• Responsive design
• Logo design
• Icons, vector graphics, and photos

Research

• Interview
• Observation
• Diary studies
• Survey
• Affinity mapping
• Empathy mapping

• Usability test
• A/B or multivariate testing
• Competitive analysis
• Secondary research
• Web analytics
• Task analysis
• Card sorting
• Tree testing

• User persona
• Journey mapping
• Participant recruiting/screening
• Cognitive walkthrough
• Expert review
• Heuristic evaluation
• Research presentation

Content

• UX Content Writing
• Content testing
• Data-driven Content Analysis
• Content Auditing
• Content guidelines - style, tone, style, tone, voice, grammar

• Branding and messaging
• Search engine optimization
• Content Strategy Development
• Content Modeling
• Visual communication design
• Copywriting (promotional or informational writing)
• Technical Writing (support docs, training content)

Design, Research, Content

• Inclusivity and Accessibility standards
• Information Architecture

Conclusion Action Items

• Use this as your own personal skills' resume! Link this UX Experience Profile when you contact Project Leads to discuss UI/UX open roles
• This was a good first issue. Once you have completed the steps and checked all relevant boxes, you can close this issue