Numiko

Over Easter I spent two weeks at Numiko working with their UX team. During this time I didn't really take a designing role but more research. The time spent there was focussed on evaluating work and thinking of questions for user testing, reading up and writing personas and learning about user journeys and user testing. I learnt a lot about the important of user needs and how thinking about this can start to identify problems that need designing for. Writing the personas was particularly useful because it meant we had specific characters that we were designing for and instead of making presumptions we could start making real judgements.

After speaking to the guys there and evaluating my placement the opportunity for another longer placement over summer was mentioned (minimum of 6 months). I did however specify that although I enjoyed the user experience aspect of the design I would like to be involved in the actual design itself. At the moment it looks as though if I were to go there then I would take on a role that encompassed both of these aspects. Currently they have a UX team and a design team but no one that does both. And so it seems like quite a unique position to be in. If I were to go for this I think it would help me develop my understanding in user needs and how to make design accessible for different types of users. It seems like a good opportunity to further my career aspirations.