Dassault Systemes
UX Design Internship
The Brief
I joined the Dassault systems design team in Cambridge as a UX Design Intern shortly after finishing my degree. For 6 months I assisted efforts to improve the usability of xDesign and various other applications within the 3DS web platform.
Project Summary
My time at DS flew by. One week I was at my induction the next felt like it was Christmas and my time at Dassault was over. During my time there I was able to work with some incredibly talented designers and researchers assisting with the design and development of usability improvements.
My Impact
Identified and communicated usability issues and inconsistencies to senior stakeholders in order to get further buy-in for recommendations to improve later.
I had the opportunity to make improvements to the design system used by other UX and Visual designers. The system and improvements I put in place were received positively by other members of the design team and other teams looked to implement the system.
Takeaways
This was my first time designing for fully responsive applications. I learnt about the different requirements across a variety of mobile devices, tablet, laptop and large desktop screen sizes.
Working within such a large organisation I learnt how to communicate effectively across disciplines as well as different time zones.
As I worked primarily on usability issues I spent a lot of time considering edge cases and really honed my attention to detail for spotting issues.