Green Thumb Mockup - Phase 1

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I mentioned in the Green Thumb Storyboard post that I went too far with the mockup, compared to my classmates. At the beginning of the Intro to UI/UX course, we were told that we could either recreate an existing app or website or create one from scratch as the project we would work on over 6 weeks. I chose to do a little bit of both.

I have mentioned Green Thumb. It’s even listed as a project here, but I’m not going to sugarcoat anything. That first version is not my best work. There are only three screens and it doesn’t show how a user would navigate through the app. I wanted to revise it and this was the perfect chance to do so.

With that said, I was up to my knees in it. MY KNEES.

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Green Thumb Design & Implementation Guide (DIG)

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The week I had to turn this assignment in was the same week that I knew I had to make a few changes in my life. Were those changes easy even though I had already thought about making them a month before? Absolutely not. It was stressful and being confused about this assignment added to it.

To kick things off, my first thought was that it was a style guide so I used our good friend Google to gain a little more insight into what was needed. It seemed pretty straightforward, but then I second guessed myself by directly typing “design and implementation guide” into the Google search bar. That just gave me more questions than answers, to be very honest. What really threw me for a loop that I was supposed to create this Design & Implementation Guide (DIG) before I even did a proper mock-up.

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Green Thumb Storyboard

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A few things have happened since the last post.

1) I completed the Intro to UI/UX course. It felt a little weird not going to class last Saturday after doing it for six weeks, but I will say it was nice to sleep in a bit.

2) I went a little too far with the final project. Classmates of mine completed three screens of a high-fidelity prototype and I ended up doing much more than that. You’ll see this in an upcoming post.

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User Personas - Green Thumb 2019

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Taking a break from our not so regularly scheduled programming to pop in with this post.

A few weeks ago I started taking a course that I have wanted to take for the last year. It’s an introductory course to UI/UX. I’m not only learning a lot and noticing that what I have learned on my own over the last year and a half is clicking, but I’m really enjoying it.

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