Position Summary:

IDEO helps companies innovate. We design products, services, environments, and digital experiences for organizations seeking new ways to provide value to their customers. IDEO creates visible and tangible strategies for innovation and executes all aspects of design and development, from conception through production.

IDEO is looking for fall interns to work for 3-6 months in our Palo Alto location.

Key Activities:

Design Interns work collaboratively, creatively, and flexibly within interdisciplinary teams and with our clients. IDEO's human-centered design process involves careful observations of people; gathering insights from those observations and other creative perspectives; exploring and defining design opportunities; helping to define strategy; creating tangible design expressions; and communicating the essence of these ideas.

Being a designer at IDEO means you do a lot of listening, observing, brainstorming and iterating with a group of people with backgrounds very different than yours. This diversity of thought and approach results in breakthrough ideas that lead to innovative outcomes.

Candidates should demonstrate an ability to work across a range of projects, from product interaction to software tools and applications to the web. Prototyping and production skills are essential, as well as a passion for design and a point of view about your work.

Additional Skills Required:

All Intern candidates must:

be passionate about their craft/area of specialization; demonstrate a clear “point-of-view” relating to their design; play nicely with others (IDEO is a very team-oriented culture); and be self-directed toward excellent work outcomes

Please note that we are only considering students who are in the midst of their schooling or who will be returning to school for our internships!