Rentz
📄Project Brief rentZ is a real estate application I and my team members came up with for our capstone project at the Side hustle internship. For the capstone project, I was elected team lead and as the lead, I led stand-up meetings to check in on our progress, I communicated with and ensured to actively listened to my team members. The capstone project was in two parts - Part 1 - research the real estate industry and come up with an application that offers ease and flexible rent payment. Part 2 - following the design thinking process, come up with at least 3 new features for your product in part 1.
🔎 Capstone Project 1
We carried out the following tasks to fulfill the requirements for submission -
Market research
User research
Created user persona
Created EPICs, user stories & acceptance criteria
Created product roadmap
🎨 CP 1 Slide Presentation
👩🏾💻 My Tasks
For this phase, I was tasked with the following -
Creating the product roadmap
Defining the product vision
Designing and compile slide presentation
Creating mockups
🧩 Capstone Project 2
We carried out the following tasks to fulfill the requirements for submission -
Design thinking process -
Empathize: carried out user research
Define: created user persona
Ideate: team brainstorming session
Prototype: designed wireframes
Created EPICs & user stories for the new features
Created a Kanban board
🎨 CP 2 Slide Presentation
👩🏾💻 My Tasks
For this phase, I was tasked with the following -
Creating Kanban board showing the following:
Product backlog
To-do
Doing
Done
Design and compile slide presentation
Leading brainstorming session
Designing wireframes and mockups
⚒ Tools I used
Logo - Figma
Wireframes - Figma
Slide presentations - Google slides
User research - Google forms
Roadmap - Miro
Brainstorming board - Miro
Kanban board - Miro
⚡️ My Key Learnings
It’s important to carry out user research to validate the problem you’re solving.
Carrying out research provides important data that’ll be useful to you throughout the SDLC.
Brainstorming sessions helps the team eliminate ambiguity.
Always listen to your team members’ opinions.