Internship Overview
COUNTRY Financial is an insurance company that maintains clients across the United States.
At the COUNTRY Financial DigitaLab in Champaign, IL, I had the opportunity to build upon different technologies across visual design and automation projects. I worked alongside business and technology sponsors from the home office as well data science and software development interns throughout my experience.
Due to NDA agreements, please reach out at taychan723@gmail.com for specific details about my work.
Timeline:
May - December 2023
Role:
UX Design, Visual Design, Software Development
Tools:
Adobe CC, Figma, Microsoft Suite, Python, SQL, Robot Framework
Design Samples
I created a new promotional brochure for the DigitaLab using Figma and Adobe InDesign.
I also worked on creating the annual DigitaLab yearbook! Above are some sample pages.
Key Takeaways
This marked my first internship in the UI/UX domain. During this experience, I realized the importance of being my own advocate. Especially as the sole UX/UI intern in the summer cohort, I learned how to coherently articulate my designs and ideas to various stakeholders with different authorities within the company.
Moreover, I appreciated the DigitaLab's emphasis on collaboration amongst different fields. As such, I learned how to design under the constraints of business and technology requirements. Because I worked under cross-functional teams, I also had the unique opportunity to build upon my coding skills. I had limited experience in programming before this internship, but I was given the time to learn and implement Python, SQL, and Robot Framework in real world projects.
At the end of the summer term, we presented our projects to the corporate office.