Singapore's UX Theatre Company - Associate Consultant Idean Employee Review

2.0
23 May 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Nice office (5 word minimum)

Cons

The Singapore team only wants to impress people through flashy designs and presentations. The screens they make are just nice looking. The focus is if the client likes the look of the design. If you join, be prepared to make posters. No emphasis on experience design. For research, none of the Idean Singapore researchers actually know how to conduct research. They just recycle the same design workshop and user interviews. They place more emphasis on the words they use for their presentation than the thought that goes through the research methods. If they hire you, they probably think you can give a good show. Through credentials or your presentation skills. Or they just want you to make nice posters or those souvenirs they like to give out at workshops. They don't need you to know how to do ux or uxr and they don't have the experience to teach you. They are basically a theatre group that acts like a ux design company.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

I've been able to work on some of the most fun, future thinking and design-oriented projects of my career in a wide range of industries with some incredibly talented designers while at Idean. Each project has allowed me to explore new methods of workshopping, problem solving and design in areas beyond traditional interface design to solve real challenges faced by companies today and speculated for tomorrow. An extremely family-oriented culture that is a lot of fun, offers good work/life balance and fun activities.

Cons

The biggest challenges facing Idean are around communication between different people in different studios in terms of documentation, artifacts and resources and opportunities. This is especially true between the individual contributors, middle management and the C-Level, who are very busy trying to manage a strained relationship with our acquisition partner, Capgemini. This has made it difficult to improve process and communication throughout the organization which mostly becomes apparent in between projects. During client engagements, everything goes very smoothly and everyone is able and eager to pitch in ideas and concepts to help people to grow into the best designer they can be.

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