User Experience Design Summer Intern, 2026
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To apply:
You must submit all of the following materials:
Updated resume with year of graduation and program
Design portfolio
Transcript of current or previous semester- unofficial or official; must be in English.
You are required to be located in Singapore for the duration of the internship program.
Google will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require Google's sponsorship of a visa.
Minimum qualifications:
- Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Product Design, Visual Communication, Interaction Design, Interactive Media or related field.
- Experience with design tools (e.g., Figma, Adobe, etc.).
- Experience conducting user interviews or surveys. Experience applying user-centered principles in intern, work, or project setting.
- A design portfolio that demonstrates design principles.
Preferred qualifications:
- Currently enrolled in a full-time degree program and returning to the program after the completion of the internship.
- Design experience in interaction, graphic design, or motion design fundamentals.
- Excellent communication and collaborative skills.
- Excellent analytical, creative, and visual thinker with excellent visual communication skills.
About the job
We follow a simple but vital premise in the User Experience group: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." We're ardently interested in our users and strive to learn everything we can about their behaviors, attitudes and emotions to help define the products and experiences we create. The User Experience team is a critical driving force behind gathering these insights and then using them to inspire and inform design. We are a multi-disciplinary team of interaction designers, visual designers, motion designers, production designers, UX researchers, UX writers, UX program managers and UX engineers who collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create innovative, usable, great-looking products that people love to use.
As UXers, we envision how people experience our products and bring that vision to life in a way that feels inspired, refined and even magical. In this role, you'll discover, explore and solve for complex user problems - transforming opportunities and pain points into intuitive, accessible and easy-to-use solutions for millions of people in the region.
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Responsibilities
- Collaborate with fellow UXers, Product Managers, and Engineers to create insights, explore problems, and deliver on solutions.
- Conduct user research and usability testing. Create UX artifacts and deliverables (e.g., decks, wireframes, mockups, illustrations, prototypes).
- Contribute to the design of user interfaces and experiences. Understand and apply UX principles and best practices.
- Learn how UX contributes to and collaborates on the product development process.
- Learn about and applying typography, color, grid, and composition principles.
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