Professional Applications Design Intern – Job Description
Apple’s Pro Apps Design Group is seeking a passionate and highly creative intern who understands
film and video post-production as well as the complexity of software product design.
This person must posses a relentless attention to detail, a gifted eye for aesthetics, and
the ability to quickly grasp and distill highly complex matters.
The intern will work closely with all designers, producers, and editors to assist in the design
of high-visibility applications that are used daily by creative professionals working in postproduction
(examples include Final Cut Pro, Motion and Soundtrack Pro).
The intern will be responsible for researching, cataloguing, concepting, and articulating new
user experiences; creating visual specifications; producing visual assets from established designs
and writing documentation required for proper design implementation for our applications.
The candidate must be a natural collaborator, a passionate advocate for great software design,
and be capable of crafting simple solutions to complex problems.
Qualifications:
• Minimum 2 years of experience editing video with sound design/production, motion
graphics, and photography.
• Experience creating or designing innovative and visually stunning experiences for the
web, software, games, DVDs, or video.
• Degree candidate in film production, interaction design, human factors and/or visual design
(or equivalent).
• Body of work presentable as a reel (film, video, web examples) or design portfolio demonstrating
the successful delivery of innovative video, motion graphics, and/or design.
• Understanding of fundamental design disciplines (typography, composition, information
architecture, color and animation) and principals (affordance, clustering, consistency, usability,
etc.).
• The ideal candidate is not afraid of a blank white board or blank screen.
Software Skills:
• Knowledge of editing, motion graphics, and finishing suites like FCP, Avid, Smoke, Luster,
etc.
• Highly versed in graphic design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Omnigraffle, etc.
• Mastery of the Mac OS X platform.
• Knowledge of prototyping tools such as Flash, Director and/or AfterEffects is a big plus.
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Contact; Mary Reilly <mary.reilly@apple.com>
