# 2027 Summer Internship - User Experience at Home Depot - Company: [Home Depot](https://homedepot.com/) - Location: Atlanta, GA - Type: Internship · Internship - Posted: 2026-09-06 - Apply: https://homedepot.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careerdepot/job/STORE-SUPPORT-CENTER-ATLANTA---9090/XMLNAME-2027-Summer-Internship---User-Experience_Req192109 - Page: https://newgrad.ai/jobs/2027-summer-internship-user-experience-b960c183 ## Summary by newgrad.ai What you'll do: - Design user interfaces and experiences for retail software in a collaborative team environment. - Create user-centered designs using market analysis, customer feedback, and usability research. - Develop wireframes, visual mockups, prototypes, and conceptual diagrams. - Advocate for design solutions to stakeholders across product, engineering, and management. What they're looking for: - Currently pursuing a relevant degree with preferred 3.0+ GPA. - 0-1 years of relevant work experience or previous design internship/project experience. - Proficiency with design, wireframing, and prototyping tools. - Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills. ## Posting With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger. ### Internship Overview The Home Depot's Summer Internship program offers college students an opportunity to develop leadership skills and gain hands on experience in a corporate environment. During an 11 – week period from May 17 - July 30, 2027, interns will be assigned to a functional team such as Supply Chain, Marketing, e-commerce, Technology, Finance, Operations, Merchandising, Pro, Home Services, Human Resources, etc. Interns will learn more about our retail business and our corporate offices while having the opportunity to work on a pre-assigned project that impacts the function they are supporting. Additionally, interns participate in networking and development activities that set them up for success as they build their careers. ### What makes a Great Intern: - Action Oriented: Intern takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm - Manages Ambiguity: Intern effectively navigates and thrives in uncertain situations while using sound judgment to make decisions without having the full picture. Is able to move work forward without all the details - Collaboration: Intern contributes to the group's efforts and steps forward to help as needed. Seeks input from others - Nimble Learning: Intern actively learns through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder - Communication: Intern develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audience - Customer Focus: Intern builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions - Drives Results: Evaluates information to make logical decisions and achieve results despite potential challenges or setbacks. ### Description of the Major/Subject Area: As a UX Design Intern, you will collaborate with a team that defines and designs user interfaces, systems, interaction, visual, motion, and voice design patterns. With passion for interaction and visual design, you can help craft end-to-end experiences to enact cutting-edge retail strategies. Design teams include every flavor of UI, UX, visual, motion, illustration, brand, and marketing design roles—as well as design technologists, researchers, writers, and more. ### Tasks, responsibilities, and key accountabilities include: - Design thoughtful, beautiful, and useful software user interfaces and experiences in a team environment. - Create user-centered designs by considering market analysis, customer feedback, site metrics, and usability findings. - Use business requirements, user and market research to assist in developing scenarios, use cases, and high-level requirements. - Develop conceptual diagrams, wireframes, visual mockups, click-throughs, and prototypes. - Work with stakeholders to plan projects for effective delivery while maintaining high standards for design. - Be a passionate and effective advocate for design with non-design audiences. - Experience with consumer brand experience design and an understanding of storytelling. - Visual design expertise demonstrated through mockups and style guides. - Additional design skills in related fields, including film-making, motion design, and prototyping. - Experience in designing interactions for voice led devices. - Experience in designing cross platform experiences. - Ability to extract complex concepts and quickly turn around rigorous flows and mock-ups reflecting a range of options. - Ability to proficiently present design solutions to stakeholders in design, product management, and engineering. - Ability to drive the design review cycle and close on design requirements independently - Able to use best practices for mobile and web-based information architecture and design, as well as knowledge of usability principles and techniques. - Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills. ### Preferred Qualifications: - Currently pursuing relevant degree - 0-1 years of relevant work experience - Previous design internship(s) and/or project experience in design. - Experience working in a collaborative team environment to deliver high-quality design solutions. - Experience in a variety of design, wire-framing, and prototyping tools. - Preferred GPA 3.0 or above ### Description of Roles: At The Home Depot, our associates always have room to move up and explore new opportunities. After the Internship, here are some examples of early career roles for interns with a background in UX: - User Experience Designer - User Experience Researcher From Home Depot's public posting, laid out for reading by newgrad.ai with the wording unchanged. Check the original before you apply. --- More new-grad and intern roles: https://newgrad.ai/llms.txt