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Internship
My internship in the 6th semester of my studies for Industrial Design was at the Bosch Engineering GmbH in Abstatt, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany.
I worked in the department Car Multimedia – Mobile App Development (my team moved to Project Internet of Things after 3 months) for 6 months as an UX + UI Design intern.
Contact me to view my work, since I am not allowed to post the projects here!
Tasks
- Concepts and Design for web and mobile applications in the automotive sector
- Independent work projects
- Continuous consultation with software developers, experts and engineers
- Creation of storyboards, sketches, wireframes, mockups, graphics
- Working with Adobe Creative Suite
- Execution and evaluation of user tests
- Various design activities in day-to-day business, such as acquisition
Projects
Among others, I worked with:
- DB – Deutsche Bahn (Creating a user story/storyboard, drawing and digital)
- Jaguar Land Rover/Home Connect (Preparation for my Bachelor thesis)
- IAA Mobility – Motorshow Germany (Use cases for a CMs Truck/Coach Cockpit, mockups with Illustrator/Photoshop)
- Bosch Motorsport (designed 70 Icons for CK-M12 CAN Keypad and other graphics)
- Bosch Sneak Preview Event (see bottom of site)
Bachelor thesis
Halfway through the internship I also decided to work with the company for my bachelor thesis, so I stayed there afterward.
The bachelor thesis was then written with the same department, now called PJ-IOT-C (Project Internet of Things – Technology Cluster) with the title “Concept and design of an interface for the visualization of innovative vehicle functions”. Which was a project between Bosch, Jaguar Land Rover and Home
Content:
- Excessive research about autonomous cars, smart home and infotainment system interfaces
- User interviews
- Personas
- Use cases
- Extensive information architectures
- Storyboard
- Customer journey
- Moodboards
- Wireframes
- Mockups
- App and vehicle display design
- Animation
- 20 minute presentation
Sneak Preview Event
For the sneak preview, the BEG students recruit other interested young people for an independently planned event.
This required presentation technique and organizational skills, argumentation skills, as well as the ability to deal with conflicts within group work, problem-solving skills, ability to think and judge, and initiative.
The event lasted 8 hours and the planning took about 2 months in total.
The BEG presents many areas and departments and shows potential interns and working students the campus and everything it has to offer.
It was my job to design the agenda sheet and to take photos on the day of the event, as well as to help with the assembly and dismantling.
