My first internship as a web designer | Week 5 & 6
Tags: Web Design, Internships, Heaj, Design, Intern

If you didn’t check my internship report of the first weeks or the past few weeks, I invite you to read it so you will have all the context for what I am explaining here.

These past weeks were much more quieter than the beginning. Eliana, my internship supervisor went to Columbia for the holidays season. She was still working for a week but with a 6 hours jetlag. Then, 3 weeks off would follow. I didn’t really know what to expect at the beginning.

For the first week, the meetings with Eliana would occur at 2pm instead of the morning. Meaning that if I would be finished with something, I would have to wait till the afternoon for a feedback. For the second week, Eliana was not there and so I would check up with Leen (the boss) the tasks I’m assigned. Because Leen is much busier, I had less meetings, more time by myself and bigger feedbacks at once. Additionally, 2 people left from Lucidweb and some people were on holiday. Therefore, I had less work to do and my pace of work was less agitated.

Mailchimp newsletter

Just to close the subject from last week, we finished the newsletter email on Mailchimp. We discovered a new feature on the platform. We could change the text with code, meaning that we could transform a link into a button by cheating and adding a border. I was also asked to add a banner and an animated gif. This assignment was made up of a lots of tries and errors and changes due to many feedbacks from Eliana, Pedro and Leen. It was a bit long because we had to change small details by small details but at the end, these details always make the design better. Unfortunately, I believe Eliana finished this task because it needed to be done before she leaves.

The last version I was working on (on the left) vs. the last version that was send out to clients (on the right)

Visuals for the medium post

Once again, Charlotte asked me to create visuals for a medium post. This time it would not be for Lucidweb’s blog but for XR4ALL, one of the client’s. The article is about start-ups in Central and Eastern Europe. It’s a top 5 of the latest XR start-ups. I had to create a banner from scratch and with no references this time. I had free rein. I also had to merge three images into one like last week.

The banner for the XR4ALL medium article

The merge was easy to do. A little photoshop and it was done. For the banner, I choose to do something similar to last week. It was gratifying to be free to do anything I wanted. I enjoyed doing it and as a matter of fact, it showed. I finished the banner in one afternoon. The feedback was that it just needed to have a little bit more contrast and more blue/purple tones. In addition, I had to make an Instagram version of the banner.

Creation of a guide for clients

The next big assignment was to create a pdf, a guide for clients to explain Lucidweb Pro’s platform. I was given a text that consisted of a list of requirements and a list of definitions to grasp the meaning of words.

I explored the topic. I made some sketches by hand for layouts. I looked for inspiration on Pinterest and Behance and started drafts on Illustrator. I looked up for references on infographics. Again, I had to create it from scratch. I was free to do as I wanted, as long as I follow Lucidweb’s guidelines. I felt like I was given more and more responsibilities and I was trusted. It also gives me space to be more creative.

For a whole day, I tried to find a good layout for the guide. It was hard to fit all the information in one page. I made a lot of try and error on Illustrator, I always kept the small details that worked the best and kept on.