Case study: Ironhack bootcamp week 1
I have got through the first week of Ironhack Bootcamp! It’s time to look back at things I have learned during the last week!
About me:
- In-house Graphic Designer for about 8 years (2010–2019)
- Product Designer in a SaaS B2B company for 1.5 Years (2020–2021)
- Certified by the self-paced online course, CareerFoundry (You can get 5% Discount)
- Currently participating in Ironhack
Why did I join Ironhack?
To cover and improve my skillset for further Product design roles.
Especially early stages of the Design Thinking process, User research, and Interviews that are difficult to do without actual people around and the setup to practice.
To be able to come up with success measurements consistently for business perspectives.
Because I realized that those are the blockers that I have been facing during the job-hunting journey. Generally, companies don’t give you honest or clear feedback — why they declined you. However, as you got through the interviews and the technical tests as well as presentations, you learn and discover the space to improve on yourself.
After the Week 1
I am going to summarise my learnings and realization in Ironhack Week 1!
Organize study resources for quick access
Ironhack provides you a variety kinds of learning resources. However, they are not really accessible quickly unless you build your system to organize them together for your use.
The reason why is that they have Notion, Student portal, Slack channels, Miro, etc different platforms.
When you work in a very fast-paced environment, it tends to be the last thing you care about. However, the more you postponed, the more headache comes to you later. Imagine, when you need to check certain resources quickly under pressure for the deadline!
By the way, this article is covering good points that I reflected on this week.
Especially…
Do the right things instead of just doing things right
… It’s common to take the requirements from the business stakeholders and do what is assigned to you…You make suggestions for how to do it better and you are doing things in the right way. But are they the right things to do in the first place?… Challenge and dive deep into why.
In the Bootcamp, there are no stakeholders and business requirements.
However, the group work project reminded me about this. There are broad levels of students in the class room. Some of them do not have a solid design background yet, so that they can easily get stuck in those situations.
Because of my background and experience, I would love to help my team to figure out what are the right things to do and how to get going efficiently but having fun! I believe I can bring some value and gain more confidence.
Let’s see what comes Week 2!
