Intern in User Studies and UX

We are looking for an enthusiastic intern to join our team in solving the AI4Europe project, a Horizon Europe initiative focused on developing an AI-on-Demand platform that connects the European AI community. In this project, KInIT collaborates with numerous European universities, research institutions, and software companies.

The intern will be responsible for designing, organizing, executing, and evaluating UX studies. The goal is to redesign the current platform to better meet the needs of its users, primarily researchers at European universities and companies. The intern will conduct usability studies, visualize and present platform changes to the team, and collaborate with a national and European team of researchers, designers, and developers.

Based on the mutual agreement, the intern will work on either or both of the projects.

Profile (requirements)

• Background in any of the areas (or equivalent, eventually certifications / courses in the following):

  • Information Science

  • Human-Computer Interaction / UX

  • Design

  • Computer Science

• You should speak English at B2 level (no certificate required)

• You should have knowledge and passion about UX / information architecture - usability, accessibility, credibility and findability / SEO (portfolio needed - can be from the courses you took)

• We welcome experience with user testing methods (e.g. A/B testing, card sorting, active listening, moderated/unmoderated user testing, eyetracking, data analysis…)

• We welcome experience with wireframing tools (e.g. Miro, Balsamique) and/or with graphic, eventually mockup programs (e.g. Figma, Canva)

• Apart from visual design skills, an attention to detail and a user-oriented mindset is welcome

• You should be curious, creative, independent and willing to learn new things

• Further nice-to-have skills (not required, you can learn them in KInIT):

  • Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, eventually JavaScript

  • Web content writing skills

  • Time and tasks management skills

  • Similar professional experience

Benefits of the internship:

• Strengthen your user study skills

• Improve your ability to work in a team

• Experience an international research environment

• Opportunity to work on creative tasks

• Learn about how to communicate and present your work internationally

• Opportunity to meet the Slovak and European elites in the Artificial Intelligence community.

• Work with a very friendly team.

Beyond the AI4Europe project, KInIT is a partner in multiple large grant projects, especially in the Horizon Europe programme, where we are teamed up with 1st class European research institutions.

Your responsibilities may include:

• You will be creating personas and user stories for a shared European platform for AI community

• You will be conducting qualitative, eventually quantitative user testing to iterate over existing designs and optimize the user experience of the platform

• You will be wireframing, creating mockups/prototypes and information architecture for the platform based on the identified user needs

• You will be drafting functional & non-functional requirements together with the other members of the team

• You will be providing consultations for content creation on the platform