How I've demonstrated growth mindset recently

Rauf Niyonzi — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 07:37:09 +0000

In life, we daily meet constantly challenges that shape our personality either in a good or bad way but at the end day something considerable changes in us. One's with a growth mindset believes that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work, brains and talent are just the starting point.

I have recently been able to experience a growth mindset in my software developer career. In February, I decided to apply in the 5-month stack up program provided by Andela which consists of learning and working on a different project that helps acquire technologies knowledge and tools to be a job-ready developer in the tech industry. During the roll phase of the program, we had to develop a full-stack application in only two weeks those were the two intensive weeks I have had for a long time. We had to Implement a lot of features in a short time and that's where I learned to be flexible and keep up with the pace of challenge I was facing. Sometimes I would have to stay awake up to 1 AM in the night to fix a bug or come up with a solution to implement a certain feature of the application.

This experience though many things but the one I found help and an example of mindset growth I will state will collaboration. I meet teammates in my group and we would discuss errors we meet and what better solutions we can come up with I found it very helpful since we were both benefiting from those discussions it was quite a great experience and valuable lesson I learned. Before I mostly loved working solo in most of my projects I wasn't a fan of collaborations in software development because I always believed one alone can accomplish a lot of work but that was before I know teamwork collaboration.

In short, The Andela stack-up program specifically the roll-up phase gave me an opportunity to learn new things and also from my teammate which helped me grow my mindset.

How to build a User Interface from start to finish

Rauf Niyonzi — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 12:45:00 +0000

Building a user interface is not that complicated as you may think once you get the basics for the development process and there is nothing as satisfying than creating a user interface that every user feel comfortable with, so let’s get started.

I will try to make it simple and short, for someone to develop or build something from scratch first you need a little bit knowledge about the fundamentals and tools required to implement a certain idea that you in mind. Read books and search for the internet about the tools and languages used to develop an interface.

Secondly, when developing an interface you need to know the current design trends that are on the market sort of new models that user are tending to like more than others those can be for example hamburger button when it comes to deal with a website responsiveness on small screens. This is an important stage in the user interface development process to help the developer understand what’s the users are liking more in a given period of time.

Starting to develop a user interface one thing you have to keep in mind is that you are developing something which will be used by someone else hence it’s important to know who are build it for and then create a prototype by using example using adobe XD or other sketching program that help you to visualize the interface and show it to other people so that they can give some feedback which helps a lot in the development cycle of an interface, now you start developing in accordance to the prototype and feedback’s received.

Lastly something we have to know is that people have different taste and hence not everyone will fully appreciate your user Interface but when following the steps I described am sure you will concur as many users as possible with your creativity.

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How I've demonstrated growth mindset recently

How to build a User Interface from start to finish