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Internship
Design
Summer 2027 Intern - Industrial Design, User Experience - Michigan
Stryker
- Hours
- Full time
- Where
- Portage, Michigan
- Posted
- Sep 8
Work Flexibility: Onsite
SUMMARY
The Acute Care Industrial and User Experience Designers are at the forefront of creating products that ensure that the user-centric needs of our customers are applied to our products and user interfaces. We focus on understanding the challenges faced by doctors, nurses and patients, and then ideate and visualize products and user scenarios that solve those problems. We collaborate with Marketing, Engineering, and Portfolio Managers to ensure that every product is aesthetically pleasing, functional, and delivers world class user experiences that improves patient care and meets the needs of our healthcare professionals.
As an Industrial Design Intern at Stryker, you will support a cross-functional team of designers, engineers, researchers, and marketers focused on creating innovative, human-centered medical offerings.
What you'd do
- Create early-stage concepts through sketching, 2D visualization, and physical or digital prototyping.
- Translate user insights into improved ergonomics, usability, aesthetics, and user experience.
- Contribute to the definition of form, features, and product look/feel aligned to Stryker’s visual brand language.
- Support research activities including trend reviews, ergonomic analysis, and capturing user insights.
- Assist in preparing materials for user feedback sessions, co‑creation activities, or usability evaluations.
- Work closely with designers, engineers, marketing, and human factors partners to advance project goals.
- Contribute to design reviews through compelling visual and verbal communication.
- Support creation of presentations, storyboards, diagrams, and visual assets articulating design intent.
- Produce sketches, mockups, CAD studies, and visual prototypes to support concept development.
- Assist in rendering and 3D visualization for communicating form, aesthetics, and experience.
- Starts
- 2026-09-08