Industrial Design to UX Design Career Changer

3 weeks, 1 day 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 chosen idea.
  • Identify the target market and position the product for launch success.
  • Develop a business model and consider how the product or service will scale.
  • Lead discovery research by managing user recruitment, creating research plans, writing interview guides, conducting 8-16 interviews, and synthesizing insights.
  • Create a compelling 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, workflows, and prototypes.
  • Lead usability testing of wireframes and prototypes and iterate based on feedback.
  • Design a custom design system including components, style guide, and branding.
  • Analyze direct and indirect competitors and define the solution’s differentiators.
  • Consult with startups to create a scope of work and complete UX research, UX design, product design, or service design work.

Requirements

  • Open to new grads and UX career changers.
  • Interested in UX research, UX design, product design, or service design career paths.
  • 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 resume; a UX resume or portfolio is not required.
  • Available to participate in a brief interview process if selected.
  • Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis; if no interview contact is received within 2 months, the application is considered closed.

Benefits

  • Free 7-month remote UX apprenticeship.
  • 1:1 mentorship throughout the program.
  • Opportunity to work remotely from anywhere in the world.
  • Support in building a portfolio-ready startup project for hiring managers.
  • Guidance and UX tips and challenges via email during the transition into UX.
  • Potential pathway to UX design, product design, UX research, or service design roles.
  • Program designed to support women, immigrants, POC, and LGBTQ folks entering tech.

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