During the summer of 2020 I was on Facebook's AR/VR team as a product design intern. I got to work on Horizon, a multiplayer VR world that acts as a social platform, complete with an editing system for users to create their own VR worlds within Horizon.
I was responsible for making improvements to how users grab objects, and designing and adding new features to the world editing system to make it more customizable and user-friendly.
As a fun fact, I was the only design intern that summer who had made contributions to the code base!
Takeaways
I found that I liked having a mix of design and technical work. This was my first internship as a product designer, and my previous ones have been in software engineering. I enjoyed being able to contribute to the design before implementing it.