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UX Design Internship 2026

CompanyLucid Software
LocationRaleigh
Work ModeOn Site
PostedFebruary 23, 2026
Internship Information
Core Responsibilities
The intern will collaborate with a motivated team to research, concept, and define visual collaboration by designing workflows, interactions, and paradigms that support customer goals. Responsibilities include driving a user-centered design approach for a roadmap project, brainstorming solutions, producing design artifacts, and advocating for the user through research.
Internship Type
full time
Company Size
1337
Visa Sponsorship
No
Language
English
Working Hours
40 hours
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About The Company
Lucid Software is the leader in visual collaboration and work acceleration, helping teams see and build the future by turning ideas into reality. Its products include the Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite (Lucidchart and Lucidspark) and airfocus. The Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite, combined with powerful accelerators for business agility, cloud, and process transformation, empowers organizations to streamline work, foster alignment, and drive business transformation at scale. airfocus, an AI-powered product management and roadmapping platform, extends these capabilities by helping teams prioritize work, define product strategy, and align execution with business goals. The most used work acceleration platform by the Fortune 500, Lucid’s solutions are trusted by more than 100 million users across enterprises worldwide, including Google, GE, and NBC Universal. Lucid partners with leaders such as Google, Atlassian, and Microsoft, and has received numerous awards for its products, growth, and workplace culture. The company holds true to its core values, including teamwork over ego, innovation in everything we do, individual empowerment, initiative, ownership, and passion and excellence in every area. Learn more at lucid.co.
About the Role

Lucid Software is the leader in visual collaboration and work acceleration, helping teams see and build the future by turning ideas into reality. Our products, business, and workplace culture have received numerous awards, such as being named to the Forbes Cloud 100 and a Fortune Best Workplace in Technology. Lucid is a hybrid workplace, allowing employees to work remotely, from one of our offices, or a combination of the two depending on the needs of the role and team. At Lucid, we hold true to our core values of teamwork over ego, innovation in everything we do, individual empowerment, initiative, and ownership, and passion and excellence in every area. We value diverse perspectives and are dedicated to creating an environment that is respectful and inclusive for everyone.

As a User Experience Design Intern at Lucid, you will be collaborating with a talented, motivated team of deep, empathetic thinkers in researching, concepting, and defining what it means to work visually. You’ll be designing workflows, interactions, and paradigms that support our customers in their pursuit to see more, know more, and do more. 

Responsibilities:

  • Drive forward a user-centered design approach to accomplish the goals of a real, upcoming project on our roadmap
  • Deeply understand the problems we’re solving and how they affect our customers
  • Brainstorm and ideate multiple ways to solve a problem
  • Understand different design approaches and suggest certain solutions over others
  • Produce interaction flows and mocks that reflect our design system
  • Advocate for the user by conducting regular user research
  • Collaborate with and incorporate feedback from a variety of stakeholders across the company
  • Support engineers and QA specialists during implementation
  • Seek out opportunities to improve the product experience beyond the standard design purview
  • Positively contribute to design team culture and help evangelize design across the company

Requirements:

  • Knowledge of design methods and principles
  • Knowledge of research methods and interest in planning, conducting, and synthesizing research
  • Passion for visual collaboration, diagramming, and software development
  • Experience with the fundamental principles of graphic design (hierarchy, alignment, contrast, repetition, etc.) 
  • Experience using design and prototyping tools like Figma
  • Clear communication skills to ensure scrum teams, product management, and managers are kept in the loop on progress and next steps
  • Availability starting May 2026

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Working towards a degree in graphic design, industrial design, human computer interaction, architecture, multidisciplinary design, user experience, psychology, English, computer science, or a related field, or a recent graduate with demonstrated competence in user experience design
  • This internship program is intended for current undergraduate or graduate students who will graduate in December 2026 or later.

To be considered for this position, please provide a link to your portfolio for our hiring team to review with your application. 

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Key Skills
User-Centered DesignUser ResearchConceptingInteraction FlowsMockupsDesign SystemStakeholder CollaborationUser AdvocacyGraphic Design PrinciplesFigmaPrototyping ToolsCommunicationDesign MethodsResearch Methods
Categories
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