My first internship as a web designer | Week 3 & 4
Tags: Web Design, Internships, Report, Design, Heaj

Here I am, at the second and third week of my internship. I kept myself busy and I have been working on multiple projects. The longer I am working in Lucidweb, the more responsibilities I get. I also got to meet more people during these weeks. Not in real life of course but still, I got to collaborate more with members of Lucidweb and exchange in meetings. If you have not read the first 2 weeks of my experience as an intern, I invite you to read it here.

Lots of meetings

Eliana invited me to join the daily scrum meeting of the dev team. What is a scrum meeting you would ask ? It consists of a gathering that makes the development teams work more productively and efficiently. The team gains understanding of what work has been done. We ask ourselves 3 questions : what did you do yesterday, what will you do today, and are there any implements in your way ? It helps a lot. Especially during this covid situation. I started to go to these meetings every morning. However, I had a lot of different small tasks and some of them were not consistent for the dev team. I ended up not going everyday and in the future, I will join them when it’s relevant. Nevertheless, it was interesting to learn about team development.

I had a similar situation with the marcom team (marketing-communication). Since I had no code related work at that moment, I assisted their team. Therefore, I was invited to the marcom meeting everyday at 4pm. It was less organized but the intention was there. We would share what we had been working on and request feedback from others and ask questions for details.

It was very instructive to attend these meetings, in the sense that I got to learn more about the work we are doing in Lucidweb. I would see the whole picture, clearer, for projects.

Test and report

With Eliana, we established that we would be testing and reporting all the bugs every week for the platform Lucidweb Pro. This platform is in constant evolution. As the dev team is pushing updates every Tuesday, we would help them for feedback by filling a form in which we detail the bugs we encountered and add screenshots or screen recording for references. It’s a small task we established to do every week from now on.

The form to report bugs for the dev team

Visuals for the medium post

As I said earlier, I was asked to do some work for the marcom team but still related to design. One of them was to create visuals for the medium article that would be published later that week. As a matter of fact, Eliana assigned me as leader for this project. It was the first time I was on my own. I would discuss the assignment with the marcom team by myself and decide the design on my own. Obviously, I had to have her approval before rendering anything but it was good to have a bit more responsibilities.

I was asked to create the visuals. The marcom team had the articles but with internet images. Of course, it was not ideal so I had to reproduce them with Lucidweb’s guidelines. I recreated 2 maps and I had to create a banner from scratch. They had a free stock image as a reference so I used that as an example and with Photoshop, it ended up perfectly. After that, I had to transform this banner for an Instagram post. It was nice to get back to Photoshop for one day because as a web designer, I almost never use it anymore.