02.23.2006

Design

IDEO Seeking Design Interns

From IDEO: “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 3-month summer interns for our Palo Alto and San Francisco locations, starting either June 5th or July 5th.

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.

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)
• be self-directed toward excellent work outcomes
• thrive in ambiguity

In addition to the fundamental design thinking criteria above, we are seeking individuals with specific strengths in the following areas:

• Product Design/Design Planning
• Mechanical Engineering
• Interaction Design
• Human Factors
• Video Production
• Industrial Design
• Graphic Design

Interns are compensated bi-weekly at competitive rates.

If this sounds interesting to you, please send your resume and samples of your work to: jobs_pa@ideo.com. Please, no phone calls.”

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