OUGD602: PPP3 - BBC Job

Ever since working with rentalcars.com at Media City I knew that I wanted to work there at some point. I love film and TV so I thought that a job in the BBC would be a good fit. I googled jobs at the BBC for UX and I came across a job for a trainee UX Designer. I watched the video that went with the job page and I knew that I wanted to learn more about this job. I have seen that the BBC will be at Manchester Digital Talent Day so I plan to go along and learn more about the job.

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Job Introduction

What do you want to do with your career? Chances are, you’re not entirely sure. But thankfully, a UX design traineeship with us can help you find your way.  
From cultivating young minds with CBeebies to the cut and thrust of BBC News, you’ll get to train your designer’s eye on a range of experiences for an array of audiences. So you can learn about both yourself and your craft, as you start your way on your dazzling design career.
To build the best UX team in the business, we’re doing all we can to nurture the next generation of design superstars. That means you.
This is your chance to join our team of innovative, supportive UX designers. And get involved with the insight, imagination and regular research we use to create delightful experiences for people across the world.

Role Responsibility

On this yearlong programme you’ll rotate across a range of products – from iPlayer to News, from Sport to CBeebies.
You’ll work on real projects with senior members of UX, as well as technical and editorial teams from across the BBC. Along the way you’ll gain unparalleled experience, as you muck in with user research, information architecture, content analysis, interaction design, visual design, prototyping and much more.

The Ideal Candidate

  • You have an outstanding portfolio you can share with us.
  • You’re dying to get your teeth into some knotty design challenges and solve them with your amazing design and communication skills. Your interest might be wireframes, user flows and personas, or layout, colour and typography. And maybe you’ve even got something special up your sleeve, like a love of building prototypes, illustration or motion graphic design. Whatever you’re great at, we want to hear about it.
  • Of course you know how to use Adobe Creative Suite products. But more importantly you’re happy to pick up whatever new package best suits the task at hand.  
  • You’ll always be considering the user and you’ll be almost indecently curious about their needs.
  • You can explain the reasoning behind your design decisions to people from a variety of backgrounds.
  • And you’re able to balance what the user needs against what we can realistically achieve.
  • Oh, and you’ve got a great degree in design, of course.


About the Company

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are very important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below. You’ll be asked questions relating to them as part of your application for this role.

OUGD602: PPP3 - Ben Casey





Laura and I went along to an evening with Ben Casey who is the creative director at The Chase, a very successful design agency in based in Manchester and many other cities. This talk was part of the Design Manchester event. Going along to this talk I had not had much time to research into who Ben was as the Chase was a studio I was not familiar with. I loved hearing some of his ideas about design and also listening to him describe how The Chase work on briefs. I most impressed when he told us about his work on the Preston North End football stadium. Ben told us that he had worked with a group of architects and builders and came up with the design of the stadium. I found this so inspiring as I had always had an idea about graphic design and felt there were many restrictions within it. Hearing of a designer with no architectural experience working on a brief life this was one of the most inspiring stories ever. I hope that once my career has set off I am able to carry out briefs like this, I plan to try out other skills over the next few months on the course.

OUGD602: PPP3 - Media City

Whilst at my placement at Numiko I was introduced to a lady named Lowri, she was the UX researcher and told me about many different User Experience events and we both went along to NUX (Northern User Experience) at her old place of work, Simple Usability in Leeds. After this event we kept in touch every now and again until I e-mailed her about some primary research for my dissertation. Lowri had left Numiko and gotten a job as the Senior UX Researcher at RentalCars.com, she told me about some user testing she was doing at Media City in Salford and asked me if I would be able to help her out in taking notes. I was very pleased with the offer and managed to sort out the time off uni to go along.

The experience has been amazing and will really help me within my disseration. I was note-taker for the majority of the time and also got to try out a test due to a user not turning up. I did 2.5 days on Desktop site and another 2.5 days on mobile, this in itself was eye-opening as I assumed that user testing would be the same across all devices. I would be happy to return to Space Labs at Media City and take notes again as it was very beneficial to my studies and also a great experience to add to my CV.


Unfortunately due to Rental Cars policy I am unable to share any of the results or imagery from the user testings. 

PPP3 Presentation

PPP3 Presentation 

OUGD502: PPP2 - Presentation

OUGD502: PPP2 - Module Evaluation

OUGD502: PPP2- Plans for Third Year

After second years PPP I have put a lof of thought into how I plan to work with third year. I have learnt alot about business and conducting myself as a professional and I am very proud of the work that I have produced this year. My plans for the third year are to make lots of contacts, go on plenty of studio visits and become more confident with talking to people. I plan to fill my summer with placements to improve on my skills that I have acquired this year, I particularly want to improve on my web design skills. I hope that this time next year I can look back on this evaluation and will be able to say that I have achieved all of these things. I am really looking forward to third year and becoming a better designer.
 

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