UX/UI Design (March 2024)

Diverse Tech Talent Program
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
DTTP Team
Program Team
(32)
Timeline
  • March 4, 2024
    Experience start
  • April 1, 2024
    Experience end
Experience
30/30 project matches
Dates set by experience
Agreements required
Preferred companies
Canada
Any company type
Any industries

Experience scope

Categories
UI design UX design
Skills
customer journey mapping qualitative research quantitative research software prototyping ui design visual design (typography, colour theory) ux writing software testing
Learner goals and capabilities

4 week digital tech placements for Canadian employers. 


Learners are participants of the UX/ UI program Diverse Tech Talent program. They have recently completed  hands-on, intensive, training in designing user centric products and utilizing design thinking. They're skilled, adaptable, and motivated to continue learning, enriching your project and kickstarting their UX/ UI careers.


In this project, a team of participants will help your company understand and solve a product problem over a four week period. They will apply their skills to your business challenge as the capstone project in their DTTP certificate program.

  • Submit a project here for the DTTP team to review. 
  • Once approved, you will be matched with a team of 5 participants.
  • UX/UI Design projects will start on March 4th 2023.

If you have questions or need help drafting your project content please email us at dttp@riipen.com.

You can also find all of our help articles here.

Learners

Learners
Certificate
Any level
150 learners
Project
40 hours per learner
Educators assign learners to projects
Teams of 5
Up to 1 team(s) or 7 learner(s) per project.
Each learner can join up to one team
Expected outcomes and deliverables
  • Projects should be approximately 40 hours in length per participant and are to be completed over a 4 week period. 
  • Each project should require the contributions of 5 participants (200 hours in total).
  • Check out this guide on best practices for working with DTTP participants.
  • Given the short and remote nature of DTTP, we require a project-based experience. If your project looks like a job posting, we cannot accept it. Please provide a concrete scope for the participant’s work and limit their work to a specific project.
  • We have pinned an example project template to this experience which you can use as a starting point. 


  • If you choose to use a template from our library, ensure that you have added as much context for your business needs as possible. Our team will not accept any projects that were created from a template without sufficient customization.
Project timeline
  • March 4, 2024
    Experience start
  • April 1, 2024
    Experience end

Project Examples

Requirements

Participants gained practical, hands-on experience in design thinking, and end-to-end user experience design for products & services.


They come equipped to

  • Lead a user research study 
  • Design a user interface 
  • Edit an existing UI Figma design file
  • Design information architecture 
  • Develop an interactive prototype 
  • Develop user personas and journey maps 
  • Create and manage a Design system
  • Effective design hand off, and collaboration with software developers 
  • Perform competitive analysis


Deliverables will vary depending on the project scope. At the conclusion of the project you will have assets that can be used to further your business goals. 


Note: If participants are completing confidential work they can still submit work on the platform by uploading redacted samples, using the worklog feature, and writing a brief project reflection. In this case, we might also recommend that you have the participants sign an NDA before starting your project. You can use the Agreements feature to do this. 

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

I confirm that I have read and understand the Terms and Conditions of this program.

I understand that I must provide ongoing mentorship and guidance to the participant team that is working on my project. I must be responsive to any questions, and check in on progress to help ensure a good result.

I will evaluate the participants' final project submissions within 5 business days, offering feedback that can be utilized by the participants to strengthen their resumes and LinkedIn profiles.

Does your company build internal products or provide consulting / services to clients?

Will the team be supervised by a Senior Manager with UX skills?

Please summarize the design problem to be solved

Will participants work within a cross-functional product team (e.g. with engineers and product managers)?