Internship
Goodnotes
Designed AI Note-Taking Tools for 50M+ Global Students and Professionals
Duration
Summer 2025
(2025)
Team
Goodnotes AI-Assisted Note-Taking & Editing
Role
Product Design Intern
Skills
Figma, Interaction Design, User Testing, User Research
Source: Goodnotes official YouTube (2024), used for context.
What is Goodnotes?
Used by 50M+ users, Goodnotes is a digital note-taking app with handwriting, typing, annotation, and AI tools to organize ideas across devices.
Internship Context
Selected from a global pool of applicants to work onsite at Goodnotes’ Hong Kong office for 12 weeks as part of the AI-Assisted Note-Taking & Editing team.
September 2025 Public Launch
My internship took place during Goodnotes’ 12-week beta phase, and the majority of my efforts supported the AI launch through quick design solutions and forward-thinking proposals for the future roadmap.
September 2025 Public Launch
June 2025 Beta
Goodnotes Blog Post
All media and assets are public and property of Goodnotes.
Project Summary and Global Impact
As a Product Design Intern on the Goodnotes AI-Assisted Note-Taking & Editing team, I played a supportive role across several feature teams while also initiating key projects.
Learnings & Reflection
This was my first industry internship, and I learned immensely. To summarize, here are the key areas of growth, unexpected lessons, and the long-term impact it had on me.
🌎 Designing for impact within real-world constraints.
Working on a real product and team for the first time taught me to prioritize feasibility, impact, and team alignment. I learned to make trade-offs, adapt designs to scope, and focus on what would meaningfully move the product forward.
🤝 Collaboration & communication make design more efficient.
Working with stakeholders for the first time taught me that clear communication with PMs, engineers, and legal is key to prioritizing goals, aligning strategy, and keeping everyone in sync throughout the design process.
🧐 To be a designer, you need to be curious and connected.
Working on a real product taught me to prioritize feasibility and impact. I learned to make trade-offs, adapt designs to scope, and focus on what would meaningfully move the product forward.
🤖 Designing for an AI-Driven future.
Designing AI features taught me to think critically about user trust and how to create intuitive experiences around unpredictable systems. It also encouraged me to think more broadly about where AI can take us in the future.
