Design Intern

Salary Unpaid

Are you our new Design Intern?

Unleash your creativity at Spuddle!

Are you passionate about UI/UX, skilled at digital illustration, and dreaming of breathing life into an app with cool gamification elements? We are a small, ambitious startup team building the "Duolingo for Excel," and we’re looking for a creative soul to challenge the status quo.

About the Role

As our intern, you’ll get your hands dirty from day one. Your primary task will be to further develop our app design, with a focus on:

Supporting our CPO in Figma: Turning ideas into sleek interfaces before they hit the developers' desks.
Gamifying the user journey: Making the experience fun through badges, progress bars, chests, and other interactive elements.
Creating playful graphics: Delivering sharp vector graphics in a playful, cartoon-inspired style using Adobe Illustrator.
Visual branding: Helping us stand out across platforms via social media campaigns and visual presentations.

Who are you?

You are currently pursuing a relevant degree or looking for new challenges. You have mastered Figma and the Adobe Suite and have a flair for structure. In a startup, things move fast, so it’s vital that you prioritize order in your file versions and tasks to ensure great solutions don't get lost in the chaos.

You have a solid grasp of classic design principles (typography, color theory, and layout). You don’t need to be a master yet, but you can spot if a text isn't centered or if a color is slightly off. Most importantly, you aren't afraid to think out loud and ask: "What if we did it like this?"

What we offer

As part of our small team, you’ll have a direct impact from day one. We operate with a flat structure and an open-minded atmosphere where we take the product (but not necessarily ourselves) seriously. The position is available as both full-time and part-time, and we are happy to plan your hours flexibly to accommodate your studies or other commitments.

The Practicalities

The position is an unpaid internship. We are flexible regarding the start date and duration, but we hope to have you on board by April at the latest.

Does this sound like you? Send us your portfolio and a few words about why you want to join the journey. We conduct interviews on an ongoing basis, so don’t hesitate to reach out! 😊

We encourage all interested candidates to apply regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or disability.

For more information or questions please contact us at maria@spuddleapp.com

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Flexible working hours

Near public transit

Remote work allowed

Free coffee / tea

Gamified office

Central office

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Working at
Spuddle

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Spuddle is developing a Duolingo-style app for Excel to help young professionals boost their digital confidence and career readiness by turning complex skills into fun, bite-sized learning. Our secret sauce? Gamification, microlearning, and a community-driven approach that makes Excel something you actually want to practice. Across the world, more than a billion people use Excel and yet most have never been taught how to use it properly. For young professionals and recent graduates, this creates a huge barrier: they’re expected to “just know” Excel, but in reality many feel insecure, waste time on manual tasks, or miss out on opportunities because of weak digital skills. This gap affects productivity, confidence, and employability and it’s widespread across industries, especially in early career roles where Excel is a daily tool. We’re building a mobile app that makes learning Excel engaging and accessible, like Duolingo, but for spreadsheets. Instead of long, boring tutorials, users complete short, gamified exercises that fit into their everyday routines. The app adapts to their level, rewards progress, and helps them practice consistently until Excel becomes second nature. Beyond Excel, our vision is to expand into other workplace tools, becoming the go-to microlearning platform for digital skills. Spuddle started as a side project on social media. We shared quick Excel tips on Instagram and TikTok, and within six months had over 200,000 followers. The overwhelming response showed us just how many young professionals struggle with these skills and how much they crave accessible, fun learning. What began as a hobby quickly grew into a mission: to make digital skills education less intimidating and more empowering. We’re building Spuddle because we’ve lived the problem ourselves, and we believe mastering the basics should feel motivating, not overwhelming.