Creative Career Changer

1 month, 2 weeks ago
Internship
Entry Level
Design and User Experience
Ideate Innovation Labs

Ideate Innovation Labs

Ideate Innovation Labs offers specialized training courses in UI/UX design aimed at empowering individuals, particularly women, to develop the skills necessary for successful careers in the tech industry, with a focus on achieving high-paying positions...

Education Services

Description

  • Complete a 7-month UX apprenticeship focused on a startup idea of the apprentice’s choice.
  • Work through the end-to-end UX design and UX research process for a digital product or service.
  • Lead product scoping and feature scoping for the chosen project.
  • Manage the overall project and develop a business model and launch strategy for the solution.
  • Conduct discovery research, including recruiting users, creating research plans, writing interview guides, and leading 8-16 interviews.
  • Synthesize research insights and present qualitative and quantitative evidence to support the problem and solution.
  • Create UX deliverables such as personas, stakeholder maps, journey maps, process maps, service blueprints, sketches, wireframes, prototypes, and UX workflows.
  • Lead user testing of wireframes and prototypes and iterate based on feedback.
  • Design a basic design system from scratch, including components, a style guide, and branding.
  • Analyze competitors and consult with startups to define scope of work and deliver UX research, design, product design, or service design services.

Requirements

  • Open to new grads and UX career changers.
  • Interested in UX research, UX design, product design, or service design.
  • Willing to commit 5-10 hours per week to program deliverables.
  • Willing to attend 2-3 hour weekend lectures or complete online video modules.
  • Open to feedback from UX mentors and willing to revise design work.
  • Able to apply with a resume; a UX-specific resume or portfolio is not required.
  • Able to participate in a brief interview process if selected.
  • Available for a remote 7-month apprenticeship program.
  • Applicants are reviewed on a rolling basis.
  • Preferred candidates include women, immigrants, POC, and LGBTQ folks seeking to break into tech.

Benefits

  • The apprenticeship program is free.
  • 1:1 mentorship throughout the 7-month program.
  • Remote participation from anywhere in the world.
  • Career support aimed at helping participants land UX jobs.
  • Alumni have historically moved into UX design, product design, UX research, or service design roles.
  • Reported post-program compensation for alumni ranges from $85,000 to $130,000.

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