Experience on this project
The negative
I’ve been working on this project since October of 2022, and my learning here has been astronomical.
Transfered an already started project on Sketch (with components) to Figma and lost a lot of progress.
3 designers doing UI without a design kit or design system, following orders from a manager that set us to copy and redesign the mockups from client without review of features or organizing flows.
Struggled with the team to create consistency, each one of them was trying to pull to each side while I was trying to hold them together.
4 managers switched in the meantime leaving a project with half of the documentation and I, the only one who was able to onboard them.
The Positive
The last Manager has put all the effort and re-structured the methodology. Thanks to that we are about to close the MVP development in only 4 months and here is what we did different:
Generation of Epics and storytelling to understand high level all the features needed.
Design and implementation of hierarchy and userflows
Group of 6 designers to work in different sprints at the same time. While some where working on the most urgent flows, the others were building a design system. I participated in both types of sprint, as I was in charge of updating with documentation and project knowledge to the newbies, which also made me the first step of approval, and the design system was first implemented based on the project urgencies.
In behalf of receiving client feedback, and know his preferences, this time we overlooked the specific requirements, and oriented the worked based on the real user needs for which the sections were being created.
Besides that we have a ton of work advanced for next releases, we limited far more the MVP features, so it was finished on a real time to be ready for launch.
Reduced the elements and the structures to reuse and recycle the most possible and reduce the waste of time in new components.
Since i was at college 10 years ago, people has looked at me as inspiration and as a leader even when my position has always been as equal.
