About Kooba
Kooba is a Dublin-based digital design agency that blends bold creativity with sharp strategic thinking. We craft digital brands, websites, and visual identities that drive results and leave a lasting impression. As a Brand & UI Design Intern, you’ll work on live projects, from campaign creative to UI systems, and gain real exposure to how great design happens across teams. This internship will have a timeline of 3 months.
What You’ll Do
- Brand Identity Development: Assist in creating and evolving brand systems—logos, colour palettes, typography, and visual rules.
- UI Design: Design thoughtful, on-brand interfaces for websites and digital experiences using Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop, Figma and related tools.
- Moodboards & Exploration: Build visual research boards to help teams align on tone, direction, and visual strategy.
- Design System Support: Help maintain or extend UI component libraries across client projects.
- Motion & Micro-Interaction: Explore and prototype lightweight animations and transitions to enhance user engagement.
- Design Documentation: Package work into clear, visually compelling presentation decks and client deliverables.
Things We Value:
- Visual storytelling: You understand how design choices guide attention and communicate meaning.
- Originality and taste: A strong visual eye and the ability to make confident, contemporary design decisions.
- Curiosity & creativity: You love to explore, test and refine ideas—even if they don’t work the first time.
- Collaboration: You’re a team player who thrives on feedback and open conversation.
- Design craft: Details matter—from spacing and grids to hierarchy and polish.
Role requirements:
- Studying Visual Communication, Graphic Design, Interaction Design, or similar.
- Proficient in Figma or similar tools.
- Strong typographic and layout skills.
- Able to present and discuss visual decisions clearly.
- Interest in UI trends, branding, and digital experiences.
- A portfolio (in progress is fine!) that shows range, intent, and creative process.
Nice to haves
- Experience with motion design tools (After Effects, Lottie, etc.)
- Understanding of responsive and accessible design principles.Interest in brand strategy or campaign work.
- Familiarity with generative tools (AI image tools, mockup generators, etc.)
Why Kooba
- Creative Variety – From startups to cultural institutions, no two briefs are the same.
- Mentorship – Work closely with brand and UI leads with years of industry experience.
- Growth-Focused – Structured feedback, regular critiques, and space to explore.
- Design Culture – We take design seriously, celebrate great work, and push to raise the bar.
How to Apply
Send your CV or LinkedIn, a short note on why visual design excites you (and if you’ve used AI or other new tools in your process, we’d love to hear it), and any relevant portfolio samples to designcareers@kooba.ie. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.