Website UI / UX Design & Prototype

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Youth In Politics
Ajax, Ontario, Canada
Program Manager
(32)
3
Project
Academic experience
120 hours per learner
Learner
Anywhere
Intermediate level

Project scope

Categories
UI design UX design Branding & style guides
Skills
software design user interface testing design tool user interface prototyping user experience (ux) design user interface (ui) design usability testing user experience (ux) figma (design software) user interface (ui)
Details

Our company would like to explore re-designing our current website with a prototype. We are always on the lookout for innovative and fresh UI and UX ideas that will help our users.

This will involve:

  • Conducting background research on our existing web application for the product. We are happy to provide a walkthrough and other resources to help bring them up to speed.
  • Identifying key areas of our current website and what areas of focused might return the best results in a redesign.
  • Learning and using various software design tools. We strongly recommend students learn how to use Figma as this is the latest and greatest tool currently available.
  • Creation of a screen by screen UX / UI prototype of a web application which can be used on all major browsers and be mobile friendly
  • Conducting UX / UI testing with real potential users potentially involving paper prototypes or other software tools to support this
Deliverables

By the end of the project, students should complete the following list of activities:

  • Familiarize themselves with our existing product
  • Familiarize themselves with a design tool of their choosing and understand how it works. We strongly recommend Figma.
  • Design and build inside of the design tool all the needed screens for a redesigned prototype of our product
  • Present the final design screens to us with the context of all their choices they made, problems they encountered, and next steps they recommend.

Bonus steps would include:

  • Conducting any sort of user testing on the prototypes to ensure ease of use and to collect user feedback.

Final deliverables should include

  • The design screens and all assets in a shareable format
  • A presentation as stated above of the final designs
Mentorship

Students will connect directly with us for mentorship throughout the project. We will be able to provide answers to questions such as:

  • Current product understanding
  • Industry standard design tools and applications
  • Any sort of branding or styling advice
  • Input on choices, problems or anything else the students might encounter

About the company

Company
Ajax, Ontario, Canada
2 - 10 employees
Government, Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society, Media & production

Youth In Politics is a registered non-for-profit student organization, with the goal of informing youth about politics and current events through journalism, podcasts, and interviews with political figures. Our roster of guests includes; Mary Simons, Kim Campbell, Andrea Horwath, Erin O’Toole, Amarjeet Sohi, etc. Youth In Politics started as a way to encourage youth to be involved in politics and find social gratification from being involved. Our end goal is to play an important role in increasing youth votership every election. We have writers and members from all over the world, with most based in Canada. Our organization has been profiled by CBC News, CP24, etc. Youth In Politics has also been recognized by the UN world food program, for our efforts when it came to covering the Yemen crisis.