Scope:

The mentorship aims to enhance the user interface design of Hyperledger Explorer. Collaboratively, the mentee and mentor will develop fresh user flows, wireframes, style guides, and high-fidelity mockups. The objective is to craft a more intuitive and user-friendly interface, simplifying user interactions with Hyperledger Explorer.

Mentors:

Jayasimha Prasad

@Arun S M

@Ravi singh

Mentee:

@Deepika S R

Timeline Template

Goal	Activity	Status	Est. Time of Completion	Milestone

Goal	Est. Time of Completion	Milestone
Onboard & Ramp-up	end of June	Onboarding and Learning/Ramp Up
	end of July	Monthly Checkpoint Jul 28, 2023 1st quarter mentee evaluation
	end of August	Monthly Checkpoint Aug 31, 2023 Midterm mentee evaluation
	end of September	Monthly Checkpoint
	end of October	Oct 20, 2023 3rd quarter mentee evaluation
Improved Documentation Add the tutorial on deployment	end of November	Monthly Checkpoint Nov 30, 2023 final mentee evaluation
	TBD	Global Meetup: Demo and Showcase (align to The Linux Foundation's timelines)

Timeline

Date	Milestone	Plan	Status

Date	Milestone	Plan	Status
June 12 - June 14		Onboarding, Mentor-Mentee Interaction	COMPLETE
June 15 - July 07	Jun 30, 2023 Onboarding and Learning/Ramp Up	Getting familiar with Blockchain concepts, Blockchain Explorer.	COMPLETE
July 08 - July 24		Starting with user research, getting familiar with more research methods, and as well as Hyperledger Fabric.	Completed
July 25 - July 31	Monthly Checkpoint Jul 28, 2023 1st quarter mentee evaluation	Conduct user research with Hyperledger users both quantitative and qualitative. Also, conduct competitive analysis.	Completed
August 01 - August 15		Studying the data and analyzing the problem. Creating user personas, empathy maps and customer journey map.	COMPLETED
August 15 - August 31	Monthly Checkpoint Aug 31, 2023 Midterm mentee evaluation	Create user stories and do Card sorting then create an information architecture. Getting started with user flows and generating user flows	COMPLETED
September 01 - September 20		Creating wireframes and along with conducting useability studies.	IN PROGRESS
September 21 - October 10	Monthly Checkpoint Sep 30, 2023	Generating style guides and documentation
October 11 - November 15	Oct 20, 2023 3rd quarter mentee evaluation	Starting with HiFi mockups and secondary usability study
November 15 - November 30	Monthly Checkpoint Nov 30, 2023 final mentee evaluation	Creation of presentation and wrap-up

MEETING MINUTES

Date	Purpose	Minutes/Summary	Action Items	Remarks on Action Items

Date	Purpose	Minutes/Summary	Action Items	Remarks on Action Items
Aug 5, 2023	Progress Meet	Progress Update Competitive analysis completed. User survey form responses were analyzed, and user goals and pain points were generated. Summarised Previous Month Activities Feature Ideas for Explorer Website @Arun S M shared his suggestions on features for the Explorer website. Hyperledger Firefly UI Discussion Plan to set up a call with someone from Firefly's design team to discuss UI aspects. Mentee Explorer Familiarization @Deepika S R is asked to install and set up the explorer and become familiar with its functionalities in real time. Group Feedback Call Plan to conduct a group feedback call with developers/maintainers familiar with Hyperledger Explorer to gather in-person feedback on design aspects.	Explorer Familiarization @Deepika S R Group Feedback call Call with Firefly UI design team	We're in the process of coordinating our schedules to match up and facilitate the call.
Aug 11, 2023	UX bi-weekly call with Likitha	Progress update: Competitive analysis completed. User survey form responses were analyzed, and user goals and pain points were generated. Insights and Discussion: Likitha introduced her colleague, Vasudha Sudheendra, who also provided insights and feedback on the work done. Likitha shared valuable tips on creating user flows and empathy maps . Task Assignments for This Week: Deepika: Create personas, empathy map, customer journey map. Task Assignments for Next Week: Deepika: User stories, storyboarding, user flow, card sorting.	Create personas Develop empathy maps Craft a customer journey map Work on user stories Create storyboards Design user flows Participate in card sorting
Aug 19, 2023	Progress Meet	Progress Update: Successfully completed personas, empathy maps, and user journey maps. Clearly defined goals and pain points. Discussed the latest update on explorer familiarization. Arun expressed interest about getting involved in the card sorting activity. Discussed about the documentation of the project	Create a confluence sub page and post all the artifacts created for the project.
Not scheduled yet	Card Sorting Activity
Oct 27, 2023	Progress Review Meet	Presentation of work done: Deepika presented the progress she has made on her current tasks. Feedback and Improvement Points: Jay shared valuable constructive feedback on Deepika's work, highlighting areas that need improvement. Likitha also provided feedback and suggestions for further enhancing the work.	@Deepika S R Refine the goals by creating groups from the existing ones. Oct 28, 2023 @Deepika S R Oct 28, 2023 After refinement, implement necessary changes in the completed activities. @Deepika S R Oct 28, 2023 Further categorize the cards in the grouped section of card sorting. @Deepika S R Oct 30, 2023 Generate Information Architecture and User Flow. @Deepika S R Nov 1, 2023 Create wireframes for major screens.

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