Events

Design@Columbia hosts various events to help students learn more about design.

Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned designer, join us at our events hosted throughout the academic year and summer.

FEB 5 – MAR 29, 2024

Google UX Design Challenge

Design at Columbia offers a 8-week Design Challenge in collaboration with Google UX, which provides a small group of exceptional students with the opportunity to hone their collaboration skills, gain real-world experience, and create a piece for their portfolio. The students work in small groups, mentored by Google UX designers, to tackle a Columbia-related design problem and design creative solutions using Google technologies. The final products, a Figma prototype and presentation, will be presented to the mentors at Google’s New York City office.

Applications are due Friday, February 2nd @ 11:59pm

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We'll feature former design interns from companies such as Amazon, Reddit, Google and IBM -

come and ask design recruiting questions Breaking into Design is a series of student-led panels giving advice as to how to land internships in product, experience, and interface design as an undergraduate student and/or entry-level jobs as a fresh graduate.

40 minutes of the panel will be dedicated to the panel itself, and the last 20 minutes will be dedicated to audience Q&A. Since we only have the room for one hour, you can approach the panelists after the event ends if you have any individual/personal questions.This event is one of many upcoming panels as part of the series, so stay tuned for more next semester!

Where: Mathematics 407
When: December 5th, Monday, from 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Design recruiting season is here! Portfolios are an integral part of landing your design internship. Join us for this co-working session to work on our portfolios together, learn about portfolio best practices and help each other getting ready for the Product/UX/UI Design recruitment process!

We’ll be hosting our sessions at the Morris A. Schapiro Hall Lounge on the first floor.

Join D@C for an info-packed evening with Google UX to learn more about pathways in user experience! Our speakers from Google’s campus team will introduce you to what a typical day of a Google designer looks like. We will then cover different UX related roles and learn about Google’s UX design internship program and application process. We’ll end the night with a Q+A session and some time to network with other designers.