👋 Welcome

Blueprint (Fall 2024)

Blueprint Designers (Spring 2023)

Unloop Project Handoff Call (Spring 2020)

1951 User Testing Session (Fall 2019)

Blueprint Designers (Spring 2022)

About Blueprint

Blueprint is a non-profit organization aimed at bringing technologies to local nonprofit organizations that are making social change. We want to aid and be part of the group of community builders who are doing meaningful productive work. Each semester, teams of six to seven students work with nonprofit organizations to implement technologies for efficiency and accessibility. We work on web and mobile applications for our clients to help them address and solve some of their systemic problems.

Spring 2025

🔍 We are looking for:

• You value strong communication with everyone, not just your team, such as listening to others perspectives while also providing your own. Though you will be the sole designer on your team, ideas cannot come to life without strong communication between your leads, developers, and the NPOs, to figure out exactly what is needed and to keep improving and evolving your work.
• You're highly flexible and able to learn and adapt to different methods and facets of design. ****As the sole designer, you'll have to wear many hats—conducting user testing, ideating on interactions, creating the visual interface, prototyping, preparing for handoff, and more. Having the ability to work with different frameworks and adapt to the situation as work progresses is essential in creating a strong end product.
• You’re comfortable working within existing systems and have an eye for detail. This semester is a unique case—much of the core flows and medium-fidelity designs are already complete. Because of this, you’ll need to become familiar with existing work and be intentional about high-fidelity visual details.
• You think critically about what you build and why. Collaborating with NPOs and the communities they serve directly is your idea as a starting point in building the right thing. You can also take a seed of an idea, cultivate it, and bring it to fruition through different critical thinking frameworks and lenses, and are not afraid of constructive criticism.
• You enjoy building equitable and inclusive solutions for communities. You’re willing to put the time and energy to ensure the solutions you’re building directly match the needs and experiences of the users and communities you are building for
• You enjoy growing by taking on new challenges and teaching the lessons you learn along the way. When we work on our projects for our NPOs, developers get to share their work, the challenges they faced and the lessons they learned

🌿 What you will do:

• Engage in regular conversations with our nonprofit partners to ideate on design solutions that optimally support the communities they serve.
• Collaborate with a team of developers and a Project Lead, as well as other designers to build accessible solutions for nonprofits and communities.
• Design fully fleshed out features for our projects assigned through weekly/bi-weekly tasks from your Project Manager. Participate in regular weekly work-sessions and meetings with project team, and regular calls with the NPO point of contact to receive feedback and continually iterate.
• Prepare clear written communication in the form of handoff documentation, both at the end of the semester when presenting work to the nonprofit partner, and throughout the semester as you work with developers on your team.