Date
June 2021- June 2022
September 2022 - December 2022
Hats Worn
UX/UI Design
Motion Media Design
Awards
Eminence and Excellence Award (Personal Award)
The Eminence and Excellence Award honors and recognizes individuals whose dedication and expertise has made significant contribution to our business. This award is manager-nominated and is determined by impact of work, leadership, and collaboration on key initiatives.
Testimonials
Matt Ahrens has had such a HUGE impact on our team at IBM. I often forgot he was an intern based on the volume of his contributions and enthusiasm to make sure our users were having the best experience possible. He was a cornerstone in creation and contribution of the Red Hat Marketplace design system - building reusable components in Figma and presenting during crits to gather feedback and make sure the entire team was made aware of any changes/additions. Apart from his design skills, he's just a lovely human. Super easy to get along with, always willing to help, and one of those people that the team always looked forward to working with. I can't recommend him highly enough, I hope to work with him again in the future!
The Brief
After being an intern with IBM for a year and a half from 2021-2022, I've had the opportunity to work on an incredibly vast amount of projects with them. These highlights include, a system of loading animations, to marketing videos, mobile designs, and even AI!
🔒 This project can't be posted online, but if you send me an email we can chat about it! 🔒
The Solution + My Role at a Glance
Red Hat Marketplace Design System: A complete redesign of RHM's Design system, and one of IBM's first Sketch > Figma transformation at scale. For more info about this, check out my separate case study!
Red Hat Marketplace Loading Animations: As a continuation of my work on their design system, I started an exploration of what a system of loading animations could look like.
IBM Embeddable AI: For this project, I helped design an AI chatbot (before chatGPT was released) and designed a re-skin of our Natural Language Processing offering.
IBM Software Central Marketing Video: I was asked to storyboard and animate a marketing video for a new IBM offering.