Entry Level Product Design Apprenticeship

4 months, 4 weeks ago
Internship
Entry Level
Product Management
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

  • Work through the end-to-end UX design and UX research process for a startup idea of your choice.
  • Lead product scoping, feature scoping, and overall project management for the apprenticeship project.
  • Identify the target market and position the product for launch success.
  • Develop a business model and explain how the product or service can scale.
  • Lead discovery research, including user recruitment, research planning, interview guide creation, and 8-16 discovery interviews.
  • Synthesize interview findings into actionable insights and recommendations.
  • Create and deliver a UX design and business pitch supported by qualitative and quantitative data.
  • Produce user-focused deliverables such as personas, stakeholder maps, journey maps, process maps, service blueprints, sketches, wireframes, UX workflows, and prototypes.
  • Lead user testing of wireframes and prototypes and iterate on the solution to improve usability.
  • Design a unique design system from scratch, including components, style guide, and branding.
  • Analyze direct and indirect competitors to articulate differentiators and market advantages.
  • Consult with startups to create scopes of work and complete UX research, UX design, product design, and service design deliverables.

Requirements

  • Open to new grads and UX career changers.
  • Interested in creative career paths in UX research, UX design, product design, or service design.
  • Willing to commit 5-10 hours of work per week.
  • Willing to attend 2-3 hour weekend lectures or complete online video course modules.
  • Open to feedback from UX mentors and willing to revise design work.
  • Able to apply with a LinkedIn profile and resume.
  • No UX resume or portfolio is required to apply.
  • Willing to participate in a brief interview process if selected.
  • Open to applicants from anywhere in the world.
  • Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and applicants should expect that lack of interview contact within 2 months means the application is closed.

Benefits

  • The apprenticeship program is free.
  • 1:1 mentorship throughout the 7-month program.
  • Remote participation from anywhere in the world.
  • Opportunity to build an end-to-end UX portfolio project for a startup idea or industry of your choice.
  • Access to UX tips and challenges via email during the application and transition process.
  • Potential pathway to UX, product design, UX research, or service design roles.
  • Alumni have gone on to earn approximately $85,000-$130,000 after completing the program.

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