creating design opportunities | design is a party
summarizing our recent product design intern search at primer. what common gaps did we find in portfolios? what advice do we give to emerging designers?
creating design opportunities October 25, 2020 I recently started at Primer as their founding designer! One of the first things I did was open a product design internship opportunity for emerging designers because internships were crucial to starting my career. I wanted to create an opportunity that was open to anyone regardless of school status and experience. Unfortunately, many design internships today are limited to students enrolled in a degree program or candidates who have previous design experience 🥺 For this role, I explicitly did not include requirements for previous experiences. In
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