10 / 7-Eleven · Global HQ · 2017
First design internship, under NDA
Summer as an Experience Designer at 7-Eleven's global headquarters — data viz for artists, a growth-focused internal app, and a rethink of the consumer app, all covered by NDA.
Role
Experience Designer intern
Team
Embedded with designers and AngularJS developers
Duration
Summer 2017
Platforms
iOS · Web · Internal tools
Problem
First real design job, and the rules were different than school.
I joined 7-Eleven's global headquarters in Irving, TX as an Experience Designer intern in the summer of 2017. It was my first design job on real product work — shipping to real users, on real timelines, alongside engineers who expected specs, not slides.
The culture shock in week one was the honest lesson: an internship isn't a class project. Scope is set by the business, feedback comes from stakeholders who don't owe you a rubric, and design decisions have to survive AngularJS implementation. That reframing is the through-line for everything I did that summer.
Process
Three projects, one posture: ship something a developer can build on Monday.
01 · Data visualization for artists
Designed a data-viz surface intended to make performance and audience data legible to a non-analyst audience — the kind of user who wants an answer, not a query builder. Priority was picking a small number of charts that answered a small number of questions well.
02 · Growth-focused internal app
Contributed to an application aimed at expanding the company — a tool used inside the business rather than by end customers. The design work was less about polish and more about mapping the operational workflow accurately before drawing screens.
03 · Reimagining the consumer app
Prototyped a rethink of the 7-Eleven app experience — user flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes in Sketch and InVision. The goal was a clearer path from open-the-app to complete-a-task, without the surface becoming another promo shelf.
04 · Working with engineering
Paired with developers on AngularJS tasks — writing HTML, CSS/SASS against the components I designed. Designing with the implementation in view is a habit I picked up here and never let go of.
Use cases
Publicly circulated context, not internal work product.
7-Eleven Global Support Center · Irving, TX
The building I reported to for the summer. The point of including it isn't the architecture — it's the honest reminder that my first design job was inside a real enterprise, not a studio, and the constraints of that environment shaped how I still approach product work today.
Retail app · publicly circulated marketing hero
Publicly available marketing imagery for the 7-Eleven consumer app. It's used here as visual placeholder for a case study whose actual deliverables — flows, wireframes, prototypes, and shipped screens — are under NDA and not shown.
Results
Under NDA — the artifacts I can show are the building and the frame around the work.
3 projects
shipped-or-prototyped over the summer
NDA
all deliverables covered
First job
design + engineering, in one seat
The work itself is covered by NDA and I don't share screens, flows, or artifacts from it. What I can defend is the posture I built that summer — treating engineers as design partners, scoping to what can actually ship, and taking stakeholder feedback as data rather than as a grade.
If you'd like a private walk-through of the projects, I'm happy to have that conversation directly. Everything visible on this page — the HQ photo and the marketing hero for the retail app — is publicly circulated material, not internal work product.
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