Design screens real customers use. Show the evidence.
UI/UX designers decide how a product feels to use. You research what customers need, map the flows, design the screens and test them with real people. At an early tech startup your designs go live, and you leave with a portfolio built on real products and real results.
Voluntary and fully remote. Up to three hours a day across a 60 Volunteer day term. A portfolio of course projects is enough to begin.
Course projects show skill. Live products show impact.
Hiring managers see many portfolios full of practice briefs and redesigns of famous apps. What stands out is design that real customers used, with the research behind it and the results after it. A Volunteer Term gives you exactly that.
Real customers
Interview and test with the people the product is built for.
Designs that ship
Your screens are built by developers and released to customers.
Measured results
Before and after numbers that show what your design changed.
What a UI/UX designer owns.
Some Volunteers lean towards research and experience design, others towards visual interface design. Most early tech startups need both.
User research
Understand who the customers are and what gets in their way.
Experience design
Design flows that are simple, clear and accessible.
Interface design
Turn approved flows into polished screens and components.
Testing and iteration
Prove the design delivers, then improve it.
Design with product and engineering, not in isolation.
Designers at tech startups collaborate daily with the product manager who sets the priorities and the developers who build the screens.
Leave with case studies built on real products.
Every Volunteer Term leaves you with evidence a hiring manager can open and check.
Shipped designs
Screens and flows that are live in a real product.
Research you led
Interview findings and journey maps that shaped the product.
Usability evidence
Test results and the changes they led to.
A design system
Components and guidelines you built or extended.
A Tech Founder reference
A reference from the Tech Founder you collaborated with.
A global community
Connections with product managers, developers and founders across 158+ countries.
Start in three steps.
Three simple moves to begin building demonstrable design experience.
Create your profile
Sign up and link your portfolio, even if it is course projects for now.
Match with a tech startup
Apply to UI/UX design opportunities, up to three at a time.
Design from Day 1
Agree the outcome brief, post daily and weekly updates, and deliver from Day 1.
Design for real customers, not practice briefs.
Join a tech startup's product team for a 60 Volunteer day term. Free, fully remote and flexible.