Hi designers!

Welcome to the first edition of CUxD newsletter for Fall 2025, a curated set of design learnings, inspiration, resources, and tips. We’re Clément & Sia, Internal Outreach Leads, and we’ll be writing to you on behalf of CUxD every week.

If you’re not familiar with CUxD (Cornell User Experience Design), we’re a centralized community for UI, UX, and product designers at Cornell. We learn and grow together both professionally and socially!

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Internships
Advice from a fellow designer
Design inspiration
Outro

Getting UX design experience

Every week, we’ll explore a topic in design. In this edition, we’ll talk about getting design experience both at Cornell and outside.

1. Classes at Cornell

INFO 1300 - Introductory Design and Programming for the Web
INFO 1998 - Introduction to Digital Product Design
INFO 3152 - Introduction to Computer Game Design
INFO 3450 - Human-Computer Interaction
INFO 4420 - Human Computer Interaction Studio
INFO 4340 - App Design and Prototyping
INFO 4400 - Qualitative User Research and Design Methods

2. Cornell student organizations

Medium Design Collective
A design group that combines consulting, art installations, and experimental labs to explore the intersection of design and society.
Applications due: Sep 14
Design Consulting at Cornell
A consulting group that helps startups, nonprofits, and companies solve real problems using human-centered design.
Applications due: Sep 17
CUxD
A student organization that fosters UX and product design through workshops, newsletters, and events like the annual Design-a-thon.
Applications due: Sep 18
Cornell DTI
A cross-disciplinary project team that develops tech products (CU Reviews, CoursePlan, Queue Me In…) fosters innovation for Cornell and beyond.
Applications due: Oct 16
Cornell AppDev
A student-run project team that builds and ships open-source mobile apps (Eatery, Ithaca Transit, CourseGrab) for the Cornell and Ithaca community.
Applications due: Oct 16
Cornell Hack4Impact
A chapter of the national Hack4Impact network that builds software for nonprofits to create social impact.
Applications due: Oct 16

3. Research

Smart Computer Interfaces for Future Interactions (SciFi) Lab
The SciFi Lab at Cornell designs intelligent wearable systems to enable natural human-computer interaction.
Meta Design & Technology Lab
Focuses on experience-driven design, emotions in human-product interactions, and design-mediated behavior change in Human Ecology.
Interaction Research Lab
Focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of information and communication technologies, including mobile computing, health technologies, and social networking.
Undergraduate Research at Bowers CIS
Find more opportunities on the Bowers CIS website!

Internships

Product Design Intern @ Roblox
San Mateo, $58 / hr
Product Design Intern @ Figma
SF, NYC, $45 / hr
Product Design Intern @ Databricks
Seattle, $34 - $42 / hr
Product Design Intern @ Lyft
SF, $52 - $58 / hr
Product Design Intern @ TikTok
San Jose, $30 / hr

Advice from a fellow designer

About

David Martinez Lopez, Senior in Information Science (UX and Interactive Tech), Los Angeles, CA

Fav Figma shortcut

shift + enter to select the parent layer of your current selection (or enter to select the child layers)

Previous work experience

Designer for CU Apartments on DTI, Consultant and PM for DCC, Experience Design Intern at U.S. Bank.

Proudest design project

I loved working on TextQL, an AI powered data platform (shoutout Daniel Wei and Valerie Wong!). It was my first time working for a fast moving startup and only my second design project, and I was amazed (and surprised) by how much I was capable of doing in one semester. I worked on a dashboard to make the platform feel more connected and improve navigation.”

Advice

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“Find something you actually like doing! After working on projects in so many different spaces, I’ve found that I’m now craving to do work in niche spaces that I’m actually passionate about and that are actually relevant to me (ex. wearable technology because of my running watch). As you’re building up your portfolio and resume, it’s good to jump on any opportunities that come your way, but while you’re doing that you could start at least thinking about projects that you would be interested in leading yourself in the future.”