User Experience Design BS/MS Intern, 2026

Google

Minimum qualifications:

  • Currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree program in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Product Design, Visual Communication, Interaction Design or a related field in the EMEA region.
  • Relevant practical or internship experience in testing and iteration.
  • Experience conducting user interviews or survey.
  • Relevant practical or internship experience using design tools (e.g., Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, InVisio, Principle, After Effects, Framer Studio etc.).
  • A design portfolio that showcases design principles for web or mobile platforms.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Relevant practical or internship experience demonstrating a design background in interaction or graphic design or motion design fundamentals.
  • Relevant practical or internship experience demonstrating knowledge in applying user-centered design principles
  • Ability to apply brand visual assets in a user interface context.
  • Ability to complete a minimum 13 week full-time internship in the internship location starting in either May, June or July 2026.
  • Currently enrolled in your penultimate/final year of education.

About the job

Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers: we care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in gathering insights about the attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google’s businesses.

A UX Designer envisions 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 learn to tackle complex tasks and transform them into intuitive, accessible and easy-to-use solutions for billions of people around the world – from first time users to sophisticated experts.

Google is and always will be an engineering company. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to address some of technology’s greatest challenges and make an impact on millions, if not billions, of users. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on massive scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, Social to Local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

A UX Designer envisions 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 learn to tackle complex tasks and transform them into intuitive, accessible and easy-to-use solutions for billions of people around the world – from first time users to sophisticated experts.

Responsibilities

  • Test and produce interaction flows and mock-ups that accurately communicate product functionality to Product, Engineering, and Visual Design team members.
  • Apply essential design principles, patterns, and systems, and use design tools and processes to help develop mock-ups or prototypes. Identify product or platform requirements. Follow well-defined design templates, style guides, and accessibility guidelines.
  • Identify design solutions based on user insights, business needs, and industry trends that help achieve business objectives.
  • Identify innovative design solutions to user, product, and business problems. Respond to evolving design constraints.

Identify design solutions based on user insights, business needs, and industry trends that help achieve business objectives.

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