Fall 2018 | infoLab  |  Novia Wong  | MSI Second Year infoLab focuses on interdisciplinary collaboration between UX research and design, data analysis, and library science students, all while working with a client. As a second year MSI, I applied to be “UX designer I” on the team, who also serves as a mentor in UX research and design to another student who is slightly less experienced -- it was really rewarding being a mentor, especially seeing how much she learned throughout the project! Then, I was placed on a team of four, with another UX designer and two data science students. From there onward, my team and I spent the next four months or so working with a local health informatics company to redesign their surgery outcomes calculator. My infoLab project was different in many ways compared to other projects that I’ve worked on. For starter, other projects that I worked on at school had strict schedules for milestones and assignments; but for infoLab, we had to plan and track ou