laurabsteele/personal-goals

A goal planning repository to keep myself accountable and learn how to code better

Personal Goals

I want to be a better designer, but also learn how think like a developer. As I am working on PM work in my day job I need to really focus on technical skills on the side.

Overarching Year Goals

1. Become a better designer
2. Learn how to think like a developer
3. Get better at coding
4. Get better at articulating my ideas
5. Make Health a Priority

December 3, 2017

This Week's Goal: Try and get focused and get ready for the new year.

Things I'll do Next Week:

• Learn basics of CSS Grid
• Finish Coursera Mentorship class
• Create a non-web projects
• Create a list of all the projects I have on my to-do mindset
• Write out all the projects and personal focuses in 2018.
• Self review for 2017

Backlog: Side Projects

City View Church

• Women's Ministry
• Brainstorm on how to make marketing better
• Goals for 2018 in Marketing. What makes it successful?
• Website Updates - Make it more inviting and give more information
• Social Media Automation

User Experience

• Cookbook App UX Project
• Travel Timeline UX Project

Graphic Design

• Seattle Thunderbirds Infographic
• Hockey Basics Infographic
• Goalie mask promo poster

Career Oriented

• Write self brand story
• Portfolio Site
• Read a web design book

Backlog: Career Things I Want to Do/Learn/Play With

• Practice rapid prototyping
• CSS Grid
• NPM Linking
• JavaScript
• Advanced CSS
• Understand JSON
• Attempt JS30
• Read this blog post (The Complete Guide to CSS Grid)