We do a lot of collaboration or teamwork during our work, in fact, it’s a regular thing for us. Including me, there’s only one other intern so we basically work together with the supervisor on projects. Sometimes we split one project and work on different parts and other times we handle multiple different projects individually.
Currently, we are working on a big project which is a foldable menu with many different food sections. It was already designed previously but the client wants to add more sections and food items with new price changes for some of them. Adding anything to what is already there on the menu is very challenging since there’s hardly any space. We started by dividing up work among me and the other intern. Our supervisor suggested that we should copy the design of the old menu board and separately create new boards for the Breakfast and lunch sections which we can later add to the main foldable menu. I was responsible for doing the lunch while my partner was working on the breakfast when we first started. As far as communication goes we always work while being in the Zoom meeting, so we basically talk to one another whenever we need clarification or other help. My and partner however sometimes use Zoom chat for communication since our supervisor often works on other projects, using the chat doesn’t distract her and we can do it pretty comfortably. In between hours we share our screens for everyone to see the progress and make any necessary changes, even our supervisor shares her screen to show us what she is working on and asks for our feedback on it. When we are stuck and need more clarification we call the client and put the phone on speaker. At the end of the day work, we do a little session and talk about how everyone did and what is next. We also communicate via email everyone has each other’s email addresses whenever something comes up we either email or text each other. Any necessary client emails are also forwarded to us for the projects. This project is still ongoing, I was working on the final board on my own since the other intern was absent and my supervisor is on vacation. On Monday she said we will work on it together again and do the final adjustments before handing it in.
