This is Part 2 of a three-parter story, if you haven’t read the first one I invite you to check it out here. — I am listing reasons why I quit all Facebook-owned apps last July, the last article talked about privacy issues with Facebook products. This article will focus more on Facebook’s political involvement.

For the challenging ultimate project of Ironhack’s UX/UI Design Bootcamp, I decided to design for a community that I didn’t know well. This is a concept app for Gender Transition Tracking. — We often hear that Empathy is very valuable as a UX Designer. You have to learn about and empathize with situations or mindsets that aren’t your own, and this is what you need to use to design your solutions.

Week#6 of the UX/UI Design at Ironhack got me to reprise my previous work and add some style to it. — What a weird feeling that is to go back to a project after a couple of weeks! Going back after some time away, made me realize the odd choices, the lack of hierarchy in fonts, inconsistent spacing…etc The prototype definitely wasn’t as good as I remembered it. Sad face. But…

For Ironhack’s UX/UI Design Bootcamp’s third challenge, we had to imagine a new feature for an existing app. — And I chose to work on a Stream Sharing feature for Amazon Prime Video and I called it “Movie Night”. I think watching movies online is great, but it could be another tool to connect with our loved ones. Especially in 2020, watching the same movie or TV Show at…

This is Week #3 of the UX/UI Design Ironhack’s Bootcamp, and the challenge this time was to create a tracking app. Will I survive this process on my own? — This week has been pretty intense, it was the first challenge we had to take on individually since the start of the Bootcamp, and the timeframe to deliver was reduced to one week. The instructions were to create a Tracking App. Today there are plenty of apps that will track…

For the first two weeks of our UX/UI Design Bootcamp at Ironhack Amsterdam, we had to work on an E-commerce project. The original guideline said, more precisely, a local E-commerce project. — The idea was that “local shops often suffer a decrease in their annual sales due to more and more adoption in online purchases through options like Amazon or eBay.” But due to the pandemic, this aspect had to be reconsidered. My partner in design, Matty Acton, was working from Spain…

For Ironhack’s last challenge of prework, I had to conduct research to redesign a travel app. I had to choose the type of users and the specific app to study usability on, then use my findings to offer solutions. The persona The first step was to choose a user type. We had…

For Ironhack’s July session’s prework I had to reverse engineer the wireframing from the app of my choice, as the second challenge. I chose to work on the Etsy mobile app for two main reasons: the first one being that I’m a regular user of this app so I felt…

As part of the prework for the July session of the UX Design bootcamp at Ironhack Amsterdam, I had to work on finding solutions to make buying and using public transport tickets easier through the app Citymapper. What is Citymapper ? Citymapper is a public transport and mapping service app that was created in…