​Ready to flex your UX design muscles?

​💪 Join us for Protothon 2025, an online, no-code UX hackathon where you'll sprint through the full design process—from idea to high-fidelity prototype—all in just 2 days!

​This is your chance to think fast, design smart, and win big 🏆

Our Protothon is beginner friendly and open to all.

​🧠 How It Works

​You’ll take on a real-world UX challenge and rapidly prototype a solution—no coding required.
Just bring your creativity, curiosity, and a good internet connection.

​1️⃣ Understand the Problem
Pick from one of our prompt tracks: Classic, Enterprise, Food, or City.
Each track will challenge you with a unique, open-ended design problem.

​2️⃣ Ideate & Sketch
Do some user research, sketch your concepts, sort your ideas—anything goes. The goal is to explore bold ideas fast.

​3️⃣ Prototype It
Use tools like Figma, Sketch, or Webflow to build out your polished solution. Make it beautiful, make it functional!

​4️⃣ Submit & Win!
Your design will be judged by top UX professionals from across the industry. Best designs win awesome prizes! 🎁

​🔥 Event Tracks

​🎯 Classic Track: Get a chance to focus on crafting a new experience. This could be a feature in an app, a redesigned website, or an entirely new platform! 

​💼 Enterprise Track: Design for business! This track focuses on empowering large corporations with the tools they need for daily operations, analytics, and business intelligence.

​🍱 Food Track: Your gateway to rethinking how people discover, access, and share food in today's world. This track invites you to explore how UX can impact something as essential—and unequal—as the way we eat.

​🏙️ City Track: Your gateway to designing smarter, more human-centered urban experiences—from navigation and public transport to safety, accessibility, and community engagement.

​🌟 Judges from Across the UX Galaxy

​Get your designs reviewed by an elite panel of UX experts from companies like Microsoft, DoorDash, Adobe, T-Mobile, and more!

• ​Mookesh Patel – Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University

• ​Missy Yarbrough – Senior Product Designer, Procore Technologies

• ​Max Brettler – Experience Designer, Slalom

• ​Pragya Srivastava – CEO and Principal UX Designer, Ctrl+Design

• ​Sahin Gumus – Product and Experience Director, Moving Brands

• ​Pratik Joglekar – Senior Product Designer, Hubspot

• ​Kathy Wang – Product Designer, Snorkel AI

• ​Alice Li – Product Designer II, Health Stream

• ​Ellen Chun – Senior Product Designer, DoorDash

• ​Evan Luputra – Sr. UX Designer, Expedia & Co / CEO, Savicore

• ​Shane Martin – Interaction Designer, Intuitive – daVinci 5

• ​Sheraz Butt – Product Designer, Piktochart

• ​Simran Tank – Product Designer Senior Associate, JP Morgan Chase

• ​Zhiqi Lin – Principal Product Designer, Ingram Micro

• ​Pawan Sevak – Senior Product Manager, AI/ML, Adobe

• ​Jennifer Jing – Product Design 2 Lead, Microsoft

• ​Haopeng Liu – UX Designer, Microsoft

• ​Jatin Gupta – Senior Product Designer, T-Mobile

• ​Claire Guo – Product Designer, Target

• ​Yuchuan Yu - UX Designer, Microsoft

• ​Somya Shah – Founding Product Designer, iitjobs Inc.

• ​Aditi Gupta – UX Designer, Microsoft

• ​Ashish Gupta – Product Designer, PhysicsWallah

• ​Zubin Chopra – Senior Software Engineer, LinkedIn

​👾 Organized by DubsTech x Design Buddies

​About DubsTech

​DubsTech is a student club at the University of Washington Information School (@uwischool ) focused on accelerating people’s careers in tech. We host free workshops, talks, and hackathons on data science, UX design, software engineering, and cyber security.

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​About Design Buddies

​@design.buddies is a community where you level up your design career. Make lifelong friends, improve your design craft, and land jobs. We have free resources, events, design challenges, a job board, fun perks, and more. Hop in here: https://discord.com/invite/designbuddies

​Have questions? 📬

​Reach out at dubstech@uw.edu Or check out our FAQ