Taken the evening the first professional engagement closed out — four months of UI/UX and front-end work at LayOver, and the team it was done alongside.
A UI/UX design internship at LayOver, running 23 March to 20 July 2025. It was the first professional engagement of the lot, and this photograph is the day it ended.
The work ran from research through to production: user research and usability testing on the mobile flows, high-fidelity wireframes and interactive prototypes in Figma, accessibility held as a requirement rather than a pass at the end, and the prototypes translated into responsive React components against the design system the product is built on. Two documents came out of it — a completion certificate and a reference letter — and both are in the certifications wall.
What an internship actually teaches is not a tool. It is that the work stops being judged by whether you like it. A design is finished when somebody who has never met you can use it without being told how, and that standard is set by other people, arrives on their schedule, and is not negotiable — which is a different discipline from a personal project you can keep improving until it satisfies you.
The record of it is a certificate and a letter. The photograph is the other half: the people it was done with, on the evening the last piece of it was handed over. Both are worth keeping, and only one of them is filed.
Divyakush Punjabi