Center for Creative Intelligence Design
Korea National University of Arts
Internship Programme
Summer 2026

Designing the Future of
Human-AI Interaction

cciD is a design research center exploring how generative AI, emerging technologies, and human creativity come together to shape future experiences, products, and systems. Working across industry, academia, and experimental practice, we build interfaces, tools, and intelligent systems for the age of AI.

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Industry & research partners
Samsung
Hyundai
LG
NAVER
K-ARTS
+ Labs
About cciD

We are a design research center where creative intelligence meets computational craft, creating the interfaces, tools, and systems people will use, trust, and live with in the age of AI.

cciD operates at the frontier between art & design school rigor and industrial research. We pair designers, researchers, and engineers on problems that don't yet have a vocabulary, and prototype our way to the answers.

Our work spans generative AI, human-AI interaction, computational design, and physical AI: intelligent objects and environments that sense, respond, and adapt. It moves between center-initiated experiments and projects grounded in real industry collaboration.

Generative AI

Models as design material, image, text, 3D, and audio systems shaped into expressive creative tools.

Human-AI Interaction

New grammars for collaboration between people and intelligent agents, trust, agency, and legibility.

Computational Design

Design as systems and code, parametric, generative, and data-driven approaches to form and behavior.

Physical AI

Intelligence embodied in objects, robots, and spaces that perceive and act in the physical world.

Future Interfaces

Speculative and post-screen interaction, voice, spatial, ambient, and multimodal experiences.

Industry Collaboration

Sponsored research with global partners, real briefs, real constraints, real deployment.


Open positions

We design the interactions, systems, and experiences
that help people navigate the transition toward preferred futures.

Summer 2026 Research Internship. Join a small team of designers, researchers, and creative technologists working on AI, interaction design, future interfaces, and emerging systems. Three internship positions are available for Summer 2026. Internships run for 2-3 months at cciD in Seoul, with hybrid flexibility and opportunities for extension.

What you'll work on

Design and build interactive systems, front-end and/or back-end, structured around real user flows and goals. Prototype experiences, wire up LLM and agent workflows, and build the experimental tools the studio runs on. You turn speculative ideas into things people can actually use.

What you'll learn

  • Shipping prototypes that feel finished, not like demos
  • Bending the latest AI models into experiences people enjoy
  • Being equally at home in design and in code

Skills preferred

JavaScript / TSWebGL / Three.jsPythonLLM & AgentsComputational ThinkingPrototyping
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What you'll work on

Shape how people and AI talk to each other. You'll design and prototype interactions for systems that are conversational, probabilistic, and alive, turning rough ideas into things people can actually feel, use, and trust.

What you'll learn

  • Designing for systems that never behave the same way twice
  • Prototyping as a way of thinking, not just presenting
  • Making complex intelligence feel simple and human

Skills preferred

Interaction designMotion DesignFigmaPrototypingSystems thinkingUX Writing
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What you'll work on

Own the visual and motion language of AI products, from typographic systems and editorial layout to the finest moments of motion. You'll hold every screen to a high standard of craft: precise type, deliberate grids, and interfaces refined down to the pixel.

What you'll learn

  • Building visual systems with the rigor of an editorial design studio
  • Treating typography, grid, and motion as one continuous craft
  • Defending the details, the restraint and precision Apple is known for

Skills preferred

FigmaTypographyGrid & layoutMotion designDesign systemsBrand identity
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Inside the studio

Help define the questions the field hasn't learned to ask.

Our team shifts fluidly around every project. What begins as a prototype often evolves into real products, exhibitions, research publications, and experiences that reach people well beyond the studio.

Directed by Prof. Kyuha Shim

15-20
Researchers working in the center right now
5-8
Mentors moving fluidly across projects

Experimental research, real outcomes

We run experimental work as joint research, collaborating with engineering schools like KAIST and major agencies, then share it through products mass-produced in the fall or in our second-half exhibition.

Industry-academic projects

Depending on your skills and experience, you may be placed on global tech / large-enterprise industry-academic projects with our partners.

Summer 2026 intake

Application

We read every application. Show us your curiosity and your craft, polished portfolios welcome, works-in-progress even more so. Applications close June 28.

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Thank you for applying to cciD. We read every submission and will be in touch within two weeks.

Join us in shaping the future of design, intelligence, and human experience.