INTERNSHIP — SUMMER 2025
Redesigning a foundational project workflow in Xcode on Apple's Developer Experience Team
TIMELINE
May - Aug 2025
(12-week Internship)
ROLE
TEAM
1 HI Design Manager
9 HI Designers
TOOLS
Sketch
Xcode
Keynote
Due to confidentiality agreements, I am unable to share more details about my project publicly. However, if you'd like to learn more about my time at Apple, please email me!
REFLECTIONS
A Summer at Apple
This past summer, I was a Human Interface Design Intern at Apple working on Developer Experience in Xcode. During my internship, I dove into the world of designing professional creative and developer tools, understanding underlying technical constraints and the structure of Xcode projects, what it's like to deploy apps on an Apple platform, as well as how AI is changing how people create and evolve software over time.
I was lucky to get to work on a problem I had encountered myself while using Xcode, spending weeks experimenting on the platform and mocking up ideas. What started as a project exploring small but mighty UI changes evolved into laying out a product vision for the future of building on the IDE.
In the end, I had the opportunity to present high-fidelity screens that reimagined a foundational workflow to my VP! I also got to develop an idea for iContest, Apple's internal intern competition with my friend Anna. I'm especially grateful for my team for being incredible mentors, both in design and in life, the fellow interns in my office, and the many wonderful people I met across the company who were willing to take the time to chat with me. You all made this summer incredibly special!
