Industrial Design Intern

Job Description:

Job Description

Primary Function of Position
Industrial Designers at Intuitive help design next-generation products and solutions for robotic surgery systems and refine and evolve existing product lines. We are user-centered and hands-on, helping to translate insights into actionable design opportunities and successful user experiences.
As a natural collaborator, the Industrial design intern will work with our process partners (engineering, clinical development, human factors, user research, and marketing) on the framing and definition of future product opportunities. Focusing on the user experience aspects of the product, you will employ a growing understanding of user needs, ergonomics, form, proportion, color, materials, and manufacturing processes to resolve complex technical challenges into elegant solutions. With an ability to explore, prototype and test a wide range of new ideas, the industrial designer visualizes opportunities to help build consensus on the right path forward. The industrial designer design is a skilled storyteller and crafts compelling presentations illustrating new user benefits and opportunities for Intuitive.
Essential Job Duties
The industrial designer intern contributes to the definition and design of new products at Intuitive. Working with senior designers and partners, the industrial designer creates innovative human-centered design solutions that will improve user experience.
* Learns and employs a user-centered design process to help frame problems and define opportunities.
* Collaborates with other Product Design team members to contribute to the design of compelling, integrated user experiences.
* Utilizes a range of creative 2D and 3D tools and techniques to develop design proposals.
* With support from senior team members, distills strategic, technical and ergonomic requirements while developing a range of solutions that synthesize usability, utility, manufacturability, and desirability.
* Works with product development and engineering partners and fellow designers early in the product development lifecycle to generate conceptual product designs and opportunities
* Combines industrial design objectives with the objectives of our process partners.
* Translates and captures brand attributes in compelling physical forms.
* Generates functional and/or appearance prototypes to explore and validate design choices conceptually.
* Participates in user research, usability testing, and clinical research labs
* Delivers design proposals to engineering for production and executes with support from senior ID team members