Submitted by: Karen Shaw, kshaw3@uca.edu on 03/15/2024
UCA Internships and Cooperative Education is proud to announce our 2023-24 Intern of the Year, Madison “Maddie” Porter. Maddie is a senior Writing, Rhetoric, and Information Design major, graduating in May 2024. She is a 2-time appointee to the Student Advisory Committee and the winner of the Spring 2023 WRID Best Multimodal Project and 2022-23 WRID Best Scholarly Essay award.
Since November 2022, Maddie has interned with Acoustic marketing technology company as a User Experience (UX) Writer. Maddie is described as one “having a knack for simplifying complex ideas into user-friendly language”. As a UX Writer Intern, Maddie has developed informational and engaging content, such as error messages, help center text, and in-app tour content, to ease and enhance the client’s experience. She is able to apply skills learned through her coursework to effectively assess user needs, perform qualitative and quantitative testing for usability and accessibility, and edit content of Acoustic professional staff. Maddie’s contributions have made it into Acoustic’s product releases, providing a direct value to the product development lifecycle.
Maddie was nominated for UCA Intern of the Year by Dr. Kyle Mattson, Associate Professor and Internship Coordinator of the Writing, Rhetoric, and Information Design program. Congratulations, Maddie on a job well done!