During this internship, I worked on the consumer engineering team for Garmin, Ltd. Garmin is a GPS navigation and wearable technology company in a variety of industries. I specifically worked on the Fitness UX Team on wearable running, cycling, wellness and kid watches.

My Role

UX Design Intern

Tools Used

Sketch
Flinto
Microsoft Teams
Confluence

Timeline

Summer

Background

Garmin is a GPS navigation and wearable technology company in a variety of industries. I worked in the Fitness Segment, which is responsible for the following products:

• Forerunner Products: Wearable watches designed for runners. Products include the Forerunner 35, 745, 945 LTE and more
• Edge Products: Cycling products designed for bikers. Products include the Edge 130, 530, 820
• Wellness Products: wearable watches designed for the everyday user. Product lines include theVenu and Vivoactive watches
• Kid Products: Watches designed for kids to keep them active and parents in the loop. Kid watches include the Vivofit Jr and future releases

The Team

I worked with the Fitness Engineering team for this internship. I worked closest with the UX Fitness Team, which included a UX Designer II, 3 Senior UX Designers, and a Product Manager. I had a Senior UX Designer as a mentor and the Product Manager as my internship manager, so these were the 2 I worked closest with. I learned a lot from them and they reguarly gave me feedback on my designs to continue improving my skills.

I also worked alongside 150 other Garmin interns who ranged from engineering interns to management interns and more!

My Work

I worked for Garmin under an NDA so please contact me personally if you'd like to hear in more details about the work I did! A general summary:
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Project 1: Redesigned a flow within a running wearable. Went through design process from start to finish, including research, usability testing, iterating, prototyping, and presentation to project managers. I also met with software developers to discuss feasbility and the graphic design team to flush out design elements/illustrations.

Project 2: Prototyped a new proposed flow for a future product in Flinto. Used this interactive prototype to complete user testing with Garmin users to understand usability issues within the new design. I then prototyped updated designs that solved for the usability issues identified.

Project 3: Designed a new feature to be implemented on all Garmin running watches. Went through the whole design process, from ideation to research to designing to iteration. I presented these designs to project managers and team leads to get approval, as well as created user research surveys to gather data for the feature.

Project 4: While the other projects were ongoing, I helped the team transfer their design libraries from Sketch to Figma, as the team was in the process of switching over. I helped build out new libraries in Figma and taught the team more about the platform. Additionally, I helped with documentation on projects that the team had not gotten to yet.