UX Designer

The UX Design team is focused on understanding the needs and values of our users to create a usable, meaningful, and accessible product. We are responsible for all aspects of the Expunge Assist website's development, including usability, visual design, and accessibility. Our work touches on all points of the end-to-end user journey and user interactions, thus we value cross-collaboration with teams to better improve our work.

Starting Checklist

Before getting started as a UX Designer, it is important to know the background of the Expunge Assist project. Review the Onboarding doc and Wiki Intro page.
Learn about our users and review Personas.
Review previous Internal Usability test results.
Visit the Expunge Assist website and familiarize yourself with current features.
View and learn our current Design System.
Review the UI/UX issues on the EA Project Tracking Board and identify an actionable backlog item.
Communicate with PM your interest in being assigned a task.

Weekly Meeting Times

The UX Design team works closely with other teams under the Expunge Assist project to develop holistic and feasible solutions. One way we promote cross-collaboration is by meeting with our own team and others on a weekly basis. As a UX Designer, we highly encourage you to attend our weekly meetings:

Mondays from 5pm-6pm PST: Dev + Design Sync
Wednesdays from 5pm-6pm PST: Design Team Meeting
Fridays from 9:30am-10:30am PST: Content and Design Sync

If you are unable to attend any of these meetings, please notify the Design Leads and PM.

Current Design Team

Jamie Siu (Design PM)
Anita Morales (Design Co-Lead)
Serena Sanders (Design Co-Lead)
David Lee (UX Designer)
Phu (UX Designer)
Justin Yeh (UX Designer)

To learn more about the responsibilities of each role on the UX Design team, check out our Roles and Responsibilities sheet.

Key Resources / Links

Figma
Google Shared Drive
Public Facing Website/Product
Github Project Board
Github Project Board - Filtered for Design Issues
Slack Channels #expunge-assist / #expunge-assist-design-and-content
Figjam
Google Calendar Invites - Please ask Team Leads/PM for invite
Project Team Page on HackForLA

Additional Reading

This is a generic software development lifecycle diagram for Hack for LA. We would like to talk to you about how this project is different.
Read about WCAG 2.0 accessibility standards.

The Wiki is a working document and we would love to improve it. Please compile any questions and suggestions you may have and submit it via GitHub. Here's information on how to create a GiHub issue.