Growth Notes
ShaperApprenticeshipYouth employability

Learn the craft by doing the work.

A 12-week learnership for new UI/UX designers, on real client briefs.

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Phones showing the interns’ client websites, with photos from the programme, for Oliver and Shaper FigmaFramerAsana
  • 12 weeksProgramme length
  • 2 projectsReal client work
  • Hands onSupervised by an expert
  • Oliver AgencyNew web service
01How it worked

Five steps, all real.

Interns and the client around a boardroom table, with the Brief slide on screen
The brief
Two interns at their laptops beside a screen listing the user interview objectives
User interview objectives
A storyboard of ideas on a shared online whiteboard
Storyboarding
An intern looking up at the Bookt website, built in Framer, on a large screen
The Bookt site, in Framer
The interns’ e-commerce site shown on a tablet and phones
The shop
02The projects

Two briefs, four phases each.

The Bookt.app website on a laptop
Design thinkingBookt.app
1Empathise
2Ideate
3Wireframe & build
4Test & iterate
E-commerce pages on a tablet and phones
No-code e-commerceFramer
1Competitors & storefront
2Style guide
3Framer CMS
4Test & first sale
MethodPractice-based learning

“Skills through the practicing of a craft, with hands-on supervision of an experienced expert.”

03The work

What the interns shipped.

An intern presenting the Bookt website on a large screen
Presenting Bookt
Three interns walking across a courtyard, one carrying a laptop
The team
A beauty salon website on a phone
Salon site
A clothing shop website on a phone
Clothing shop
04Built into Growth Notes

Doing is the evidence.

Practising the craftThree stages per ability
Real client briefsPractice tasks
Expert supervisionMentors who’ve done it
Theory and toolsAbilities and Skills
05Results

Ready to contribute.

Weeks, brief to launch12
Projects shipped2
Tools learned on the job4
Three interns from the programme standing together

“By the end of the internship, they had not only built confidence but also created tangible projects that demonstrate their readiness to contribute to the industry.”

Alfi Oloo, programme designer
The full storyThe internship, on alfioloo.comRead the case study
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