Viasat Internship
During my internship at Viasat during the summer of 2021, I contributed to an intranet application by designing and/or developing 7 features including a navigation bar, profile page, home page, feedback modal that feeds to Slack, and 404 page. I also developed reusable React components for modals, page layouts, dropdown menus, and more.
Tools/Skills Used
- • React
- • JavaScript
- • SCSS
- • HTML
- • Strapi
- • Figma
- • GitHub
- • UX Strategies and Best Practices
- • Problem Solving
- • Iterative Development
This project was the biggest I'd ever contributed to, and mastering the existing codebase was a rewarding and valuable experience. Though the project wasn’t completed by the time I left, I did get the opportunity to deploy code to production, which was exciting!
The most valuable lesson I learned during this internship was to be more confident in my own problem-solving abilities, rather than asking questions that I could figure out the answers to myself. By thinking about problems from different angles or explaining them to others, I was often pleasantly surpised to realize that I could solve them myself!