User Experience Design Intern (Summer 2021)
Overview
OST is seeking a User Experience Design Intern for Summer 2022 in Minnesota, Michigan, or remote USA.
At OST, we believe that design plays a vital role in any successful project, product, or initiative. And we believe that designers play a critical role in ensuring that the human experience remains at the forefront of any such endeavor. At OST you will have the opportunity to make a real impact with your thinking and skills.
What you'll accomplish:
- Deliver great service to our clients
- Support execution of projects from conception through delivery
- Advocate for the best possible solution given all known constraints
- Conduct effective industry research and competitive analysis to understand the critical project context
- Identify and perform appropriate user research techniques to uncover key insights, inform innovation, and inspire design
- Help facilitate discovery workshops, design workshops, strategy workshops, and other client-facing meetings
- Contribute to overall project quality and success by wholly owning or assisting with the production of all required project deliverables (i.e. product roadmaps, user personas, user flows, user stories, journey maps, alignment diagrams, sketches, wireframes, prototypes, visual concepts, strategic communication)
- Maintain close relationships with development, QA, and other design team members to ensure that all requirements and design decisions are clearly understood
What you'll bring:
- Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in experience design, web design, graphic design, collaborative design, industrial design, human factors design, or other related disciplines
- Ability to communicate difficult and unfamiliar concepts in plain language
- Sketching, wireframing, and prototyping
- Journey mapping
Who you are:
- Empathy
- Humility
- Open-mindedness
- Adaptability
- Desire to work with and learn new technologies as they are released and implemented
- Integrity and clearly-defined values; you value being part of a strong team
- Detail-oriented and organized in professional and personal pursuits
- Positive attitude and commitment to exceeding customers’ expectations
About OST
OST is an integrated, cross-functional business technology firm bringing together strategy & insights, digital experiences, connected solutions, hybrid IT, and enterprise managed services as we work alongside clients to optimize and grow their businesses. With offices located in Grand Rapids, Detroit, and Minneapolis, OST and OpenDigital, the digital consultancy at OST, engage in ways that make the most sense and yield the best results. Our customers include global Fortune 2000 companies to funded startups. This is all wrapped in a friendly, flexible, people-centered culture. OST has been recognized in Inc. Magazine’s 5,000’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies, CRN’s Tech Elite 250, and as a National Best & Brightest Company to Work For.
You matter! Your experiences matter, your journey with OST matters, and your success matters. People drive all our achievements, and we know that taking care of each other takes care of everything else. This is why we strive to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion within our company, the work we do, and our communities. We’ll surely face challenges along the way. And we’ll all continually learn from them to build a caring culture true to our guiding principles: honor, delight, serve, embrace, and learn.
OST is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer.
