UI/UX Design Intern

Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it.

About the internship

Houston Online is hiring a UI/UX Design Intern for June 2027. Remote design internship for a student with a portfolio. We care more about your thinking than polished Dribbble shots. Remote, open to candidates across the US. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

Responsibilities

• Present your work in weekly design critiques and take feedback on board
• Collect competitor screenshots and annotate patterns worth borrowing
• Run remote usability tests over Zoom or Google Meet and summarise what users struggled with
• Review built screens in staging and log visual bugs in Jira
• Make interactive prototypes so the team can click through a flow before it is built
• Design empty states, error messages and loading screens that are often missed
• Write short UX copy for buttons, tooltips and onboarding steps
• Prepare clean handoff files with specs and notes for developers

Basic qualifications

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Laptop that runs Figma smoothly and a stable internet connection
• Able to explain your design decisions in writing
• Some experience talking to users or running a simple survey

Nice to have

• Google UX Design Certificate or a similar course
• Basic HTML and CSS knowledge

What you'll learn

• A few strong case studies for your portfolio by the end
• Running usability tests and turning messy feedback into clear changes
• How to work with developers on handoff and handle the trade-offs that come up

Program dates: June 2027, 12 weeks.

Compensation: $32.50 - $39.00 an hour

Benefits for interns

• Paid company holidays
• Flexible hours
• Final presentation to leadership
• Return offer opportunities
• Paid sick time
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Duration: 12 weeks. Start: June 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Houston Online.