Welcome to Hive
Hive is a student lab where a multi-disciplinary team get to research, prototype and develop digital products together with a partner company.
How does Hive work?
Since 2018 Hive has brought together talented students from around the world to solve real challenges through design, technology and collaboration.
Over the years more than 16 different multidisciplinary teams have joined us, worked alongside Humblebee and transformed ideas into digital services.
What makes Hive unique
Your mission
For every Hive project we collaborate with a different partner. We often choose to work with non-profit organizations or initiatives that create a positive impact on people and society. This gives the team a chance to use their skills on challenges that matter and create solutions with a purpose.
From the first idea to a working MVP you will take ownership of the entire journey. You will research, experiment, design, build, test, and learn along the way supported by mentors from Humblebee. Because great digital services are not created by one person. They are built together.
Interested?
Typical Hive process
Process
Through rapid research (ethnographic techniques as well as wider macro market research) we will understand your users needs and pains. Understanding your customers will hopefully open a gap in the market for us to build in.
Ideate
Using an array of user journey creation tools and ideation techniques we build prioritised prototypes that are visually ready to test on actual users.
Test
To validate our prototypes as effectively and quickly as possible we test on our sample users and make sure we get the most valuable feedback possible.
Iterate
Based upon our user testings & findings we are able to pivot and iterate our prototype accordingly. Testing & iterating may take more than one “round”.
Business Case
A business case should be provided simultaneously with our sprint process making sure the idea has concrete financial foundations.
MDP
No viable product, but delightful product. We ensure our MVP’s are MDP’s. Pixel sharp and crafted with care.
The 3 pillars of HIVE
Business
Entrepreneurial mindset and curiosity to doing things differently are part of your who you are. You want to become a master in understanding and executing business decisions, and have a mindset of understanding simple unit economics to grasping entire market sizes. You want to learn from your peers in design and tech in order to make a digital product feasible for the product-market fit, not forgetting the user!
Design
You want to become a champion of human-centered design and create intuitive and beautiful experiences. You have a user experience mindset and by using insights from user research you design and present innovative digital solutions. In a very near future, you want to be a master of your craft, be able to ideate, sketch, and prototype over multiple devices.
Tech
You have a passion for code and technology. You have an experimenting mindset and it would not surprise us, if you built your own home automation system or hacked your TV. You want to continuously learn more, not only about new technologies and code but also about user insights, ideation, and prototyping. You love both, computers and people!
How HIVE helped me grow as a UX Designer
The last day of my time in the HIVE, we had a big presentation showing off our work and the result. We stood in front of the audience with a product we believed in, we knew our target groups, their pains and their needs, and we had a solution for them. Everything was clear.
What really happens in the HIVE student lab?
We get these questions quite often. What is Hive, what do they do, who’s in team? Do I get any help? I decided to unveil the inner workings and make it easier for you to decide if this could be something for you!
