As part of any organization, every individual has a lot of work to do. I mean a lot. Some of these jobs naturally slip in between the cracks and when it’s showtime, managers may need to last minute scramble to help the day run smoothly. 

As someone prone to forget their duties, my friend decided to flex his skills as a developer and call in a few friends to help build a scheduling app- including myself. When I was asked to help out with this project, my bottomline role for this project was to “make the app look pretty”. Little did I know, I jumped on board in a group that Jared Spool would call “the Dark Ages”. Everyone on the team (except obviously me) was a developer that had little to no experience working with user-centered design.

In this process, I had to overcome the challenge of communicating design to non-designers and implement from start to finish, the design process all my own. So I rolled my sleeves and began to work.