Interaction Design Virtual Internship

Main contact
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Career + WIL Program Assistant
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Timeline
  • August 16, 2020
    Experience start
  • August 19, 2020
    Mid-point status check
  • August 30, 2020
    Experience end
Experience
1/30 project matches
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Canada
Any company type
Any industries

Experience scope

Categories
Information technology Product or service launch Media
Skills
competitive analysis design thinking communication research ux/ui
Learner goals and capabilities

Virtual Internship Opportunity (Paid)

This is an opportunity to bring on one or more students from the Interaction Design Program at Emily Carr University to work with you as virtual interns, in project-based experiences. Students will work on one or more projects of your choosing over the internship period, connecting with you as needed to apply their skills in rigorous design processes, virtual design tools, and critical design thinking.

Students are available for full and part-time positions, with a minimum requirement of 96 work hours.

All placements must be paid.

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, student placements will only occur virtually.

Companies can apply to work with students until August 15, 2020; placements can start earlier.

Learners

Learners
Undergraduate
Any level
30 learners
Project
96 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Individual projects
Expected outcomes and deliverables

Deliverables will be agreed upon between the students and the employer.

Students will be asked to keep a weekly logbook of their experiences, and submit a comprehensive report as part of their final assessment to both the employer and Career Development + Work Integrated Learning.

Project timeline
  • August 16, 2020
    Experience start
  • August 19, 2020
    Mid-point status check
  • August 30, 2020
    Experience end

Project examples

Students are prepared to become internationally aware Interaction Designers capable of working across a range of domains and industries, including design units within corporate, government and non-government organisations.

Students can assist you through all stages of the design of websites, mobile applications, game design and physical devices while responding contextually with design solutions to user needs for interactive devices, systems, and services to create deep meaningful human interactions.

User Research

  • participatory research
  • contextual research (competitor analysis)
  • creative research - visual and conceptual
  • personas and scenarios

Conceptualization & Strategy

  • design thinking
  • understanding strategic and business goals
  • user advocacy
  • brainstorming & sketching
  • understanding of basic psychology (including principles in behavioral science such as conditioning, learning and motivation)

Information Architecture

  • user flows
  • wireframes
  • user stories
  • card sorting

Prototyping

Through the use of paper, video, and a range of low to high fidelity prototyping, including sketching, experimenting, making 3D modeling, and testing

Communication

  • visual design - interface design skills including layout, typography, navigation, human perception, color theory, data visualization, and effective storytelling
  • presentation - present proposals with rationale and solicit and incorporate feedback
  • critique - demonstrate a strong understanding of elegant and appropriate designs
  • basic understanding of technologies relevant to digital media and emergent technologies related to user experience (UX)

Critical Thinking

  • ability to assess appropriate technology and anticipate ethical implications of the use of Technology

Time & Project management skills

  • Strong communication skills with the ability to convey concepts to engineering, developer, business, marketing disciplines
  • Collaboration and Teamwork - ability to design collaboratively and facilitate a strong team-based approach with all project stakeholders
  • Facilitate conceptual development workshops

Software

Design in Adobe Creative Suite
Interactive screen prototyping - Adobe XD, Framer, Figma Basic
Electronics/Circuit design
Hardware prototyping with Arduino
Embedded systems with Raspbery Pi
Interactive programming in Processing and Python
HTML/CSS and Wordpress design
Web VR interactive prototyping

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

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