Humblebee's Hive program places student interns in small cross-disciplinary teams working on real client briefs from discovery through delivery. Our cohort took on a product discovery engagement for a Swedish mobility client, running end-to-end from kickoff to final handoff in just under four months.
My role shifted through the project — starting in research, moving into interaction design, and ending up owning the component library.
The visual direction leaned into the client's existing Swedish design sensibility — soft pastels, generous whitespace, and precise typographic rhythm.
The team was deliberately mixed — two UX, two UI, one strategist. We ran weekly client workshops, daily standups, and fortnightly critiques with Humblebee seniors. Every deliverable was reviewed before it left the studio.
I led the user research phase: seven user interviews, synthesis in Miro, and a journey map that became the backbone of our design decisions. When we moved into interaction design, I took ownership of the core flows while pairing closely with a UI lead on visual language.
By the final weeks, I was maintaining the component library and documenting usage patterns for the client's internal team. This part of the work taught me the most — translating design decisions into something another designer could pick up and extend.
The engagement ended with a full design spec, a documented component library, and a research report. The client moved into a build phase the following quarter.