Industrial Design Intern

Overview

Summary – basic function of the role You are a motivated, passionate Industrial Design Intern, looking to expand your design capabilities in a growing segment of industrial tools. Working as the liaison for customer you will design creative solutions based on user-centered product objectives. You will partner with innovation leaders, engineers, product management, and fellow designers to gather insights, define design criteria, and lead product design to ensure form language and product experience expectations are being met. This role will focus primarily in three areas: The first area will be working on active NPD projects where observation, brainstorming, concept generation, storytelling, and illustration will be core functions of your role. The second area will be working with various stakeholders in the company to ensure projects adherer to VBL guidelines, manufacturing constraints, and ensuring the user centered features remain intact through a variety of in house projects. The final role is to think big picture and use your curiosity to create products, solutions, or applications that have never before existed in the industry. Job Duties and Responsibilities Participate in product research and uncover opportunities that effectively translate needs into actionable design requirements. Involved heavily in upfront concept ideation and development, solving newly found needs and opportunities. Participate in the design, development and refinement of physical products and graphical user-interfaces. Use thought strategy to develop user experiences for our products through both digital and physical means. Generate creative design proposals by using a variety of illustration techniques to provide visual portrayals of design directions. Use computer software to develop virtual models and renderings of different designs to communicate design intent to internal teams, stakeholders, and business partners. Ability to create physical prototypes that represent acc