Interactive Design Internship

Summer New Grad Internship
- Interactive Design Intern
- Paid

Scarab Digital | UI Design Intern | Vancouver-based film and television productions

A paid summer internship for a new graduate with a natural eye for design, original portfolio work, and an interest in creating believable interactive screen interfaces for film and TV.

• Title:
  
  UI Design Intern
• Dates:
  June 1
  - Aug 28, possible contract position afterwards
• Pay: $18 - 25/hr, 40 hours a week, 13 weeks
• This is a paid summer new grad internship focused on interactive and moving UI design mockups for phones, tablets, and computers.
• We are looking for strong visual taste, original design work, coachability, and a natural instinct for believable screen interfaces.

Scarab Digital builds story-driven on-screen graphics for film and television: phones, text conversations, social interfaces, laptop screens, websites, search results, dashboards, surveillance visuals, broadcast graphics, medical screens, radar systems, and speculative UI/FUI.

These graphics are not decorative. They need to read instantly on screen, feel native to the world of the story, and help move the narrative forward.

We are looking for someone with a natural eye for design who we can mentor to create interactive and moving UI design mockups for phones, tablets and computers inside the worlds of film and tv productions in Vancouver.

While a natural gift in creating believable user interfaces is a must, we’re willing to train the right candidate on motion (After Effects) and interaction design (Protopie). Any existing experience with those things is a massive plus.

This internship is built for a new graduate who wants to learn how strong visual design translates into production-ready screen graphics. You do not need to arrive knowing every tool perfectly, but you do need to show strong taste, originality, curiosity, and the ability to improve quickly through feedback.

• Create UI design mockups for phones, tablets, computers, websites, apps, and story-specific screen moments.
• Support the design of screen graphics that feel believable inside film and television worlds.
• Learn how to think about readability, visual hierarchy, typography, timing, and production context.
• Work from references, notes, and creative direction while developing your own design judgment.
• Receive mentorship on motion in After Effects and interaction design in Proto Pie, depending on project needs and your current skill level.
• Practice preparing files clearly so work can be reviewed, revised, animated, or handed off cleanly.

• Adobe Illustrator or Figma
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe After Effects
• Protopie (bonus)

Portfolio designs should be created entirely by you, without the aid of templates or AI. Feel free to submit school or personal projects, we want to see your best work and understand your eye for design. As we are creating interfaces for film & tv, we’re more interested in stunning visuals than UX breakdowns.

The required portfolio pieces must be submitted with the application. Bonus work should also be submitted with the application if available.

• Phone app mockup (ie. messages, social media, dating, etc.)
• Website mockup (ie. news article, forum, online store, etc.)

• Desktop app mockup (ie. point of sale system, mapping, cctv viewer, etc.)
• Medical device interfaces (ie. vitals, ultrasound, mri, x-ray, etc.)
• FUI / “Fantasy User Interfaces”, (ie. a spaceship controls, mapping, comms, etc.)
• Gaming interfaces (ie. pause screen, in-game overlay, etc.)

• have a strong natural eye…