Graphic Design to UX Design 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 an end-to-end UX design and UX research project for a startup idea of your choice.
  • Lead product scoping and feature scoping for the selected project.
  • Manage the overall project from discovery through final delivery.
  • Identify the target market and help position the product for launch success.
  • Develop a business model and think through how the solution scales with the business.
  • Conduct discovery research, including user recruitment, research planning, and interview guide creation.
  • Lead 8-16 discovery interviews and synthesize the findings into actionable insights.
  • Create personas, stakeholder maps, journey maps, process maps, service blueprints, sketches, wireframes, UX workflows, prototypes, and other visual deliverables.
  • Lead user testing of wireframes and prototypes and iterate to improve usability.
  • Analyze competitors and articulate the solution’s differentiators and innovation.

Requirements

  • Open to new graduates and UX career changers.
  • Interested in creative tech career paths 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 course modules.
  • Open to feedback from UX mentors and willing to revise design work.
  • Able to complete a resume-based application and participate in a brief interview process if selected.
  • No UX resume or portfolio is required to apply.
  • Applicants who do not hear back within 2 months should consider the application closed.
  • Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Benefits

  • Free 7-month apprenticeship program.
  • 1:1 mentorship throughout the program.
  • Remote participation from anywhere in the world.
  • Opportunity to build a portfolio project for a startup idea of your choice.
  • Support and coaching aimed at helping participants land UX jobs.
  • Access to UX tips and challenges via email during the transition into UX.

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