Design Challenges

The UX Design Challenge is a 6-week intensive program where participants work in teams to solve real-world design problems for actual clients. It’s an opportunity to enhance your design skills, collaborate with skilled peers, and produce portfolio-worthy work.

The UX challenge is open to designers of all experience levels. There are two participation tiers: - Client Facing participant: Who engage directly with clients, has a higher price rate, and constant feedback from business owners or stakeholders. - Exploring Participants: Who work on the same challenges but without direct client interaction

The UX Challenge requires a time commitment similar to a part-time job, with an expectation of 10 to 20 hours of effort per week. This ensures you can give your best to the project, support your team effectively, and deliver outstanding results to showcase at the end.

Spring Program - Registration starts in January 2025 and close at end of February 2025 - Kick off at middle March. Fall Program - Registration starts in July 2025 and close at end of August 2025 - Kick off at middle September 2025

- Client-facing Participants is CAD $500 and - Exploring Participants CAD $400. This fee is due upon registration to secure your spot in the challenge while we do the pre-screening of candidates. If you are not accepted to the program our system immediately return 100% of the money back.

If you miss the registration deadline you can register for the next challenge season, your spot may be offered to someone on the waitlist. It’s important to complete the registration and payment as soon as possible to secure your participation

Participants are grouped into teams based on their skillsets, availability, preferences, and the needs of each project. We strive to create balanced teams with diverse skills and backgrounds to ensure team and project success.

Refunds are not available once the challenge begins. If you have a health condition, we will review your case individually. Otherwise, refunds are processed only before the event starts.