Bringing Design to Girls Who Code
Design Opportunity
Mentor local high school girls in coding activities and working on a coding project.
Quick Facts
The Details
Role & Activities
I worked with juniors and seniors at a local school to help them learn how to code and work on a coding project. I taught the student about human-centered design, and helped students concept idea for app to help them stay better informed about school activities using human-centered design methods to identify a problem, write and conduct user interviews, plan a project, wireframe, and start coding in a customized “Intro to Python” course.
Image 1: Close up of wireframe sketches
Image 2: We started out by brainstorming interview questions to conduct user research with.
Image 3: After the girls interviewed each other, they shared out their research findings to identify needs and brainstorm features.
Image 4: Prioritizing features to decide what will be a part of our MVP and what will go in the backlog.
Image 5: They drew sketches of the app pages based on the features they prioritized and we organized them into a user flow.
Impact
The club started developing their app and presented their progress to the Governor of Maryland at a state-wide Girls Who Code event at the statehouse in Annapolis at the end of the school year.
Image 6: We closed out the year by recapping our progress over the first year and planning for the fall.
