Product Design Intern (UX/UI)

Week 1: findlucid product and design values

• Study the findlucid app end to end on your phone: every screen, every flow, every membership touchpoint.
• Learn the design values: clarity, honesty, accessibility, and discreet patterns like ghost mode done with care.
• Meet your mentor, agree on your weekly schedule, and write your personal learning plan.
• Read the intern handbook and set up Figma with the shared learning workspace.

Week 2: Mobile-first fundamentals

• Study mobile-first design: why 390 by 844 is the canvas and how layouts adapt up from there.
• Learn findlucid's spacing, type, and color patterns by recreating one existing screen in Figma.
• Exercise: critique three findlucid screens in writing, with specific, actionable notes.
• Discuss accessibility: contrast, touch targets, and designing for everyone.

Week 3: Flows and prototyping

• Learn flow design: mapping what a member is trying to do before drawing anything.
• Practice building clickable prototypes in Figma from simple user flows.
• Study onboarding and discreet UX patterns: how sensitive choices are presented with care.
• Exercise: redesign one small findlucid flow as practice and annotate your decisions.

Week 4: Design systems and constraints

• Study lightweight design systems: components, variants, and tokens.
• Learn to design within engineering constraints: what is cheap to build, what is expensive.
• Exercise: build a small component set with documented variants.
• Phase 1 checkpoint review with your mentor and updated learning plan.

Month 2: Usability study exercises

• Run usability reviews of existing findlucid screens as study exercises: observe, note, and write findings.
• Learn how to separate your opinion from evidence.
• Present findings in review sessions and defend your recommendations.
• Weekly mentor topics: asking good questions, visual hierarchy, and iteration speed.

Month 3: First portfolio project

• Design a practice feature end to end: research, flows, wireframes, prototype, iteration.
• Receive structured design critique from your mentor and iterate on it.
• Document your process: what you tried, what failed, what you kept.
• First portfolio piece: a complete practice case study with process documentation.

Accessibility audit project (Months 4 to 6)

Audit a set of findlucid screens for accessibility as a study exercise: contrast, touch targets, labels, and flows, and propose fixes.

• Accessibility audit document with prioritized findings.
• Redesigned sample screens showing the fixes.

Design-system contribution (Months 7 to 9)

Extend a practice design-system library: new components, documented variants, and usage guidance, learning how systems scale.

• Component library additions with documentation.
• Usage guidance page for one component family.

Capstone practice feature (Months 10 to 11)

Design a larger practice feature from research through high-fidelity prototype, with two full rounds of mentor critique.

• High-fidelity prototype and full case study.
• Research notes and iteration log.

Capstone (month 12)

Month 12: present your portfolio, three projects and the full case study, to the founder; walk through your process, your critique responses, and how your design judgment grew.