#96 – My Tech Experience

Ladies and gentlemen, I do not give myself enough credit. In fact, my lack of confidence in areas that I clearly should have confidence in is killing me. That’s ending little by little, sha. Lami is attaining the height that she is aiming for.

Today, I met with a UX design team to discuss our design process. We are designing a cryptocurrency exchange platform at Design Pal. I am enrolled in a three-month design program where I build a Web3 product. I have actually never worked in a team with specialised design roles. My current team includes content designers, 3d designers (how cool is this?), motion designers, brand identity designers, graphic designers, UI designers, and content designers. I love it.

I am in the track lead of UX design. To prepare for today’s meeting, I created documentation detailing some proposed frameworks and methods to adopt, our timeline, and some resources for the team. It was an absolutely fun process. It was also surprisingly easy. This is the part where not giving myself enough credit comes in.

So, last year, I made three cool tech moves. First, I was a project manager at the Zuri + Ingressive 4 Good training. There, I managed about 14 teams, which comprised web/mobile developers and designers. Other managers were also assigned the same number of teams. In total, there were 114 teams. I remember because I was assigned team 114. Each team was assigned a product to build. I learnt on the job because I had next to no experience in managing a tech team. However, I suitably transferred my organisational and planning skills to that role, so it was fairly easy to coordinate my teams from the start. I attentively assimilated the tech knowledge required to effectively manage my teams. This paid off, as my three of my teams ranked top 5 among top 5 of 114. They wee graded on design, features, responsivity (of websites), etc. This experience was the best I had in 2021.

The next move was that I joined the She Code Africa Summer Camp program as a class coordinator (call “Person-of-Contact”). The program engaged girls who were on summer holiday to learn how to code. I was assigned to “Emerald Class” where everyone learnt HTML and CSS. First, I absolutely loved that children were being exposed to tech early. I also enjoyed their enthusiasm to learn. It was thrilling to see a glimpse of the bright future that awaited them. My class had two mentors who taught the girls those coding languages. One funny thing is that I had to stand-in for mentors at two (or more) times because of poor network. During this time, I learnt a bit of HMTL and CSS.

Immediately after Zuri (more accurately during) my interest in research and managing the development of tech product was fuelled. Rather unconsciously, these steered me towards my third tech move! I enrolled for the Product Management course at Entry Level. Did I think Zuri was great ? This was superb!

These are 500 words (or more ?)! Talk to you tomorrow!