My Reflection #AppleDeveloperAcademy Part IV: Design, Design, and Design!

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Hi everyone, this is my fourth reflection about Apple Developer Academy!

In this project, I have an opportunity to immerse myself in design related things, because in my new team, there are 4 coders, no designer, and one domain expert. If there is no designer, that will be a disaster, since coders rely on design to create the app. Since I am interested to be a designer, I chose to be one.

Kevin Jonathan as a designer? no way!

Maybe some of my friends are surprised to know that I am capable enough to be a designer, even though I am still a newbie in term of design and still has very little experience about it. So after our researches and idea finding, to make a volunteer app, I started to learn by doing in my fastest pace. I learned Human Interface Guidelines (again), while doing the design to make sure that coders can apply my design in code as fast as possible to speed things up. As a former iOS Developer, I can tell that time is very valuable, hence I have to speed up my designing while maintaining the good essential of the UX.

So how did this started?