UX Product Designer Internship (U.S.A)

About the Role

The UX Research & Design Intern defines the optimal digital user experience for multiple projects and prospective users, and provides design requirements for achieving that experience. This is an unpaid internship.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in defining user journeys, strategy, and recommendations for features and enhancements to various projects and their infrastructure, balancing business initiatives and technological capabilities.
• Participate in wire-framing and prototyping efforts to improve user experiences for multiple projects.
• Determine factors influencing customer/user goals, experiences, and needs, and create mental models to illustrate user needs and desires.
• Provide input on plans for delivery and release schedules for the UX design framework.
• Translate business requirements and user needs into innovative design solutions that are engaging, valuable, and usable.
• Produce and improve user journey maps, site maps, user flow diagrams, and wireframes to convey how projects will work from a practical perspective.
• Collaborate on initiatives to create interaction models and prototypes to capture desired user experience, including macro and micro interactions.
• Create project briefs, presentations, competitive analyses, and other necessary documentation to communicate recommended user experience to internal stakeholders, as well as outcomes of changes and user tests.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Must be currently enrolled in or recently graduated from a workshop, bootcamp, online class, or bachelor’s degree program in user experience, graphic design, human computer interaction, or related field.
• Knowledge of UI/UX best practices and trends.
• Strong understanding of Design principles.
• Proficiency with design tools such as Figma.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and presentation skills.
• Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
• Ability to commit to a minimum of 15-20 hours per week.
• Proficiency in visual design is a plus, but not required.

Qualifications

• UX Research
• User Experience (UX)
• Figma (Software)
• User Interface Design
• Visual Design
• User Journeys
• User Flows
• UX Prototyping
• Human Computer Interaction
• Interaction Design