UX Design Intern

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted in long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio, including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. You will be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in groundbreaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role And Responsibilities

As a UX Designer (Intern) you will be a part of IBM Consulting, supporting our clients to create best-in-class experiences for their customers and users. You will be involved in customer and employee transformation, redefining and inventing exciting and impactful user experience to drive greater business value by design

• Work with the design team to define the experience and product design direction
• Research on design exemplars to inform and inspire the product outcome
• Learn and apply design thinking frameworks and methods to identify design concepts and refine design outcomes
• Learn to conduct design research and synthesise findings into actionable insights
• Learn to craft and produce various design artefacts (e.g. Sitemaps, User Flows, Journey Maps, Wireframes, High-fidelity UI)
• Plan and conduct usability testing with clickable design prototypes
• Design UI components and patterns for design systems and guidelines
  
  

Typical Project Setup

• Agile setup with a cross-disciplinary team
• Complex solutions that involves multiple systems and features
  
  

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Penultimate year undergraduate in a design-related discipline (e.g. User Experience, Visual Design, Interaction Design, Product Design)
• Proficient in using design tooling like Figma for design mock up and hi-fi prototyping
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, comfortable in engaging internal stakeholder and end-users
• Interested in practicing design thinking for digital products/services
• Resourceful self-starter and able to work independently
• Consultative mindset
• Team player that is open to different perspectives
• Flexible; able to multitask and adapt quickly
• Excellent communication skills in English
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

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