Preferred learners
- Canada
- Academic experience
Categories
Project scope
- What is the main goal for this project?
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Our company would like to explore designing a prototype for a native mobile application. This is a new app conceptualized by the founding team. The project team will be given the criteria and specific functionality required. The UI/UX team will take the concept and move forward with tasks to take the app from concept to the prototype stage; ready for development.
Tasks will include:
- Collaborating as a team and working together effectively
- Good communication skills, in written, verbal and visual modalities.
- Weekly team calls via Google Meet.
- Texting via slack to communicate intermediate issues.
- Good working knowledge of Figma as the design and prototyping platform.
- Good working knowledge of google drive and its office suite.
- Understanding the importance of a Positive work space, and having respect for each other.
- Understanding the roles of each other and the team lead.
- Understanding challenges and effective problem solving.
- Efficacious activity for positive work output.
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
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Project goal include:
- Conducting background research on existing mobile applications.
- Conducting a user research study.
- Discuss app architecture and collaborate on app functionality.
- Develop user personas and journey maps in Figma.
- Design wireframes in Figma
- Develop screens using Figma.
- Develop and manage the app prototype using Figma.
- Conduct market research with the porotype
- Execute the design to a ready state for effective handoff to the development team
- What is the main goal for this project?
-
Our company would like to explore designing a prototype for a native mobile application. This is a new app conceptualized by the founding team. The project team will be given the criteria and specific functionality required. The UI/UX team will take the concept and move forward with tasks to take the app from concept to the prototype stage; ready for development.
Tasks will include:
- Collaborating as a team and working together effectively
- Good communication skills, in written, verbal and visual modalities.
- Weekly team calls via Google Meet.
- Texting via slack to communicate intermediate issues.
- Good working knowledge of Figma as the design and prototyping platform.
- Good working knowledge of google drive and its office suite.
- Understanding the importance of a Positive work space, and having respect for each other.
- Understanding the roles of each other and the team lead.
- Understanding challenges and effective problem solving.
- Efficacious activity for positive work output.
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
-
Project goal include:
- Conducting background research on existing mobile applications.
- Conducting a user research study.
- Discuss app architecture and collaborate on app functionality.
- Develop user personas and journey maps in Figma.
- Design wireframes in Figma
- Develop screens using Figma.
- Develop and manage the app prototype using Figma.
- Conduct market research with the porotype
- Execute the design to a ready state for effective handoff to the development team
- How will you support learners in completing the project?
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Students will connect directly with us for mentorship throughout the project. Although this opportunity is unpaid, it will allow secondary benefits such as:
- Real work experience.
- Portfolio building.
- References to future positions.
- Future opportunity to for paid positions with other mobile apps within Wrk.house.
- What skills or technologies will help learners to complete the project?
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In order to complete this project, students need a working knowledge of:
- UX / UI design experience
- Graphic design experience
- Figma
- Google meet
- Google drive
- UX concepts
- Human-mobile machine interaction
Supported causes
About the company
- https://Wrk.house
- 2 - 10 employees
- Technology
WRK.house is a technology company focused on creating tools to effect positive change in humans. This begins with the most versatile and most used tool by humans; mobile devices.
WRK.house is the parent company of a family of mobile applications that work within the house.