would use the product for personal creative interests.
04 / Product design · 2024
PixelPact
A collaborative product for early-career creatives to find teammates, take on real-world challenges, and build stronger portfolios together.
- Role
- UX & interaction designer
- Team
- Five multidisciplinary designers
- Methods
- Survey, flows, prototyping, usability tests
Design, develop,
and build together.
The opportunity
Portfolio platforms show the work.
PixelPact helps make it.
Behance and Dribbble are strong showcases, but early-career designers still struggle to find collaborators and meaningful projects. We reframed the product around the work before the portfolio: forming a team, communicating clearly, staying accountable, and finishing something worth sharing.
Research
would use it for career advancement.
wanted progress tracking after connecting with others.
What changed
We made collaboration the product—not a side feature.
Chat and live discussion ranked above video and scheduling. That signal moved communication to the center of the experience. A shared workspace then connected messages with roles, deadlines, progress, submissions, and a team leaderboard.
Core journey
From profile to project completion.
Users identify their skills, select a solo or nonprofit-backed collaborative project, form a team, set goals, submit work, and build visible proof of collaboration.
Testing & iteration
Clarity beats feature volume.
More than 15 usability participants surfaced confusion around navigation, incomplete content states, and the relationship between community and team spaces. We simplified the information architecture, made active projects easier to find, and used clearer language for team actions and progress.
Open the original project siteOutcome
A focused path from “I need experience” to “we made this.”
23research participants
15+usability participants
1connected collaboration flow
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