Through Santa Clara University, I, along with two other partners, was paired with a Jesuit, Father Cortese, to bring his idea of a mobile application that delivers guided meditations to life. Father Cortese records meditation guides with a focus on Ignatian Contemplation. After consulting with him to get a sense of what his vision of the application, my team members and I agreed upon an initial UI prototype. We then created a backlog of tasks and set up week-long sprints where we assigned ourselves work to be done. We worked collaboratively through GitHub and were in constant communication over Slack, despite the barriers COVID-19 has put up. We met every two weeks to go over our progress and evaluate our tasks. The result was the mobile application displayed above that has a Home Page of guided meditations, a Search page, an About Page, a Help Page, and a corresponding web application for administrator use to upload and edit meditation guides. This work is a culmination of all I have learned over the course of my undergraduate experience thus far. It exemplifies careful attention to detail, communication, organization, and planning. It demonstrates attention to requirements, investment in stakeholder values, and user experience. The ethics of this project was a motivator to begin. My interest in web development and human computer interaction is what prompted me to begin work on this project. It allowed me to learn a new skill -- mobile app development -- while exercising previously gained knowledge and improving upon it. Lastly, without the guidance of a design team or professor, my team and I designed for a user directly, so had to evaluate user needs before prototyping and think of ways to focus user attention on the meaningful portions of the application. Overall, this experience refined my technical knowledge and my interest in human computer interaction.
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