Intern, UX Design - Summer 2023 - Chicago
Avanade’s North America Internship Program was built for one purpose: revolutionize the way we design and deliver engaging, connected experiences for our clients and their customers. Through the combination of creative and technology expertise, our digital interns will spend their time creating never-before-seen, radical and exciting solutions to our clients’ biggest business challenges. If you’re passionate about having an impact on tomorrow’s digital landscape, then let us know who you are, what you do, and why we’d be crazy not to bring you on board.
During our 10-week internship program, you will have the opportunity to experience our culture, build your network and apply your education, while gaining real-world experience. You’ll spend your summer taking on a variety of roles with some fun along the way. The experience only lasts the summer but will open a lifetime of opportunity.
About the Role
As an Intern, UX Designer, you could assist with customer engagements and create UX/creative transformation deliverables on projects. You would be working together with the user experience team to assist in workshops to gather stakeholder and end user goals using a pool of techniques to help break down barriers, communicate better and generate new ideas. You would be assisting in the creation of compelling wireframes that illustrate a best-in-class experience for our clients and test those ideas by participating in user testing.
What you’ll do:
- Work with our design and UX leads to create compelling user experiences
- Support UX discovery via workshops & design thinking methods
- Create low to high fidelity wireframes to illustrate the recommended experience
- Participate in the creation of journey maps, user flows and personas
- Learn the end-to-end process from project kick-off to delivery handoff
- Understand how to design within different platforms/technologies
Academic requirements:
- College Junior-standing, with target graduation date between December 2023and June 2024
- Creative mind and collaborative spirit
- Demonstrated exceptional performance inone of the following majors at thebachelor's degree level in Human Computer Interaction, User Experience Design, Psychology, Interactive Media, Human Factors
About you
- Demonstrates a growth mindset with knowledge of UX design capabilities and strategies. You have knowledge of UX disciplines such as: UX research methods, information architecture, usability testing, wireframing, prototyping
- Great communicator with an eagerness to work within a team
- Knowledge of design disciplines including principles of UI design, layouts, graphics development, typography, color, and visual theories
- Functional knowledge of UX design tools such as Figma, Sketch, InVision, Adobe XD
Applicants for employment in the US/Canada must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States/Canada
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