Working in a design internship with a team provides you with additional opportunities to refine your design skills and knowledge. This allows you to demonstrate your abilities, demonstrating what you can bring to the table as a designer to make new connections. We have weekly team meetings at my internship to discuss the project we are working on for our client. When I first learned about these weekly team meetings, I was concerned that I wouldn’t be able to have work weekly or keep up with the work. I was worried that I wouldn’t fit in because I am quiet when you first meet me and it takes me some time to get used to a new setting. As time passed, I became more at ease with my team and the work, and I began to adjust and become familiar with the flow of my weekly expectations.
These team meetings are necessary for all of our designs to grow, change, and be accessible to all. Having a project reviewed by multiple eyes is beneficial to work ethics because everyone will have an option if something is unreadable, inappropriate, or does not look right on a particular platform. Just because you can understand and read a design doesn’t mean it’s legible to everyone else. Giving your work a fresh set of eyes opens it up to new perspectives and can help improve future projects.
For example, when I had to design posters for a monitor screen, I had never done so before, and while I knew the size of the monitor, I didn’t know the correct font size for what was readable to the public on it. When I showed my work to my team members who had previously worked on monitor posters, they advised me to make my text larger and use less information on such a large poster. Finally, team meetings are essential for gathering feedback to improve your work ethic and skills as a designer.
