Forbes Summer 2025 Product Design Intern

As a Summer 2025 Product Design Intern at Forbes, you'll be responsible for bringing innovative ideas to the team, applying research and usability testing for informed design decisions, and collaborating with various departments. You'll also be expected to communicate the rationale behind your design choices effectively, ensuring that both designers and non-designers understand your vision.

To qualify for the Product Design Intern position at Forbes, you should ideally have at least one year of experience designing digital products, which can include coursework. You should also have foundational knowledge of UX principles and be comfortable designing with tools like Figma. An impressive portfolio showcasing your design work will make you stand out even more!

The Product Design Intern role at Forbes can be pursued either fully remote or in-person at our Jersey City, NJ office. You also have the option of a hybrid model, giving you flexibility to choose what works best for you, as long as you are located in the specified states within the U.S.

The Forbes Summer 2025 Product Design Internship lasts for approximately 10 weeks, beginning in mid-June and ending in mid-August. Interns can expect to work around 40 hours a week, Monday through Friday, and will receive an hourly pay rate of $21.00.

As a Product Design Intern at Forbes, you will engage in projects that focus on creating user-centric digital experiences. You'll have the opportunity to design for various platforms, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure your designs effectively meet the needs of our audience while driving business goals forward.

In your response, you should outline your approach by mentioning how you start with research and user feedback, followed by ideation and sketching. Discuss how you use tools like Figma and the importance of usability testing, ensuring that you articulate how each phase contributes to a user-centered design.

It's important to discuss your understanding of accessibility standards such as WCAG. Explain how you conduct research on user needs, implement color contrast guidelines, and engage in usability testing with diverse user groups to ensure everyone can effectively interact with your designs.

Express your enthusiasm for joining a company that values innovation, diversity, and inclusion. Mention specific projects by Forbes that inspire you or highlight how the company's focus on entrepreneurial capitalism aligns with your passions in design.

Discuss your mindset regarding feedback—emphasize that you view constructive criticism as a vital part of the design process. Illustrate this by sharing an example where feedback led you to refine your design to better meet user needs.

Elaborate on how you see collaboration with cross-functional teams as essential. Share examples of successful teamwork where different perspectives improved the final product and helped push boundaries in design innovation.

Choose a specific project from your portfolio, describing the initial challenges, your design process, and how the outcome positively impacted users or achieved goals. Make sure to express what you learned during this project and how it shaped you as a designer.

Highlight key components such as empathy, research, and iterative testing. Discuss how listening to user feedback and iterating on designs ensures that the final products align with user needs and create positive experiences.

Mention specific resources such as design blogs, online courses, or communities you engage with. Talk about how you apply new insights or techniques into your work to keep your designs fresh and relevant.

Share a compelling story where you successfully communicated your design vision to stakeholders or teammates. Including the strategies you used to persuade others, such as data or user feedback, will showcase your advocacy skills.

List tools like Figma, Adobe XD, or Sketch, explaining why you prefer them based on their features, ease of use, or collaboration capabilities. Mention any experience with prototyping tools and how they enhance your design process.