The main lessons learned from this project were:

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1. Real users face to face interviews.

Unfortunately i didn't have possibility to meet real users, so interviewed them online, which had many limitations. For instance, i could not have relaxed friendly talk due to time limitations. Or i could not see how they use webpage. My solution was to interview random people that i could meet in real life, and that gave me many useful insights, although they were not actual users of the site. 

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2. User flows.

If I had chance I would create more user flows (based on more interviews :-) )as it turned out to be super helpful tool for identifying pain points, specific user behavior, important features and details. 

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3. Communication with real test users.

This one is similar to the first point. Testings with real users were conducted by manager. Although i managed to set good cooperation between us, it was not as effective as i wished. So i conducted my own testings as well, with random users. If i had chance to speak to the real users, i believe i would get more insights and ideas to improve the design.

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4. Time frame and dead-lines.

For this project i didn't set time frames due to my limitations. Also, i couldn't really set dead line for testings. All this impacted process dynamics and it's duration.

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5. Designing UI without grids.

At the time I've been working on the project I didn't have any knowledge about grids and proper UI designing. So prototype was not 100% accurate. Of course, now I've learned how important and how much easier it is to build prototype using grids.