Platform design for the largest AI competition in history. Built as a high-fidelity prototype for a partnership pitch. Now becoming a real product.
Role: Design Lead Client: Technovation Timeline: 1-Week Tools: v0, Vercel, Figma
Technovation has spent 20 years teaching girls to build technology. 300,000 women in the network. Teams across 16 active markets. The problem: all of that scale lived in scattered programs and press clippings. There was no single place where it became visible, and no path from competition alumna to paid technologist.
The assignment was a pitch to Google: show what Technovation's ecosystem could become if the competition, the talent, and the work opportunities lived on one platform.
Three audiences, one front door. The hero says it in four words: Founders. Investors. Talent. One ecosystem.
The platform has four connected surfaces:
Home is the season hub. A press wall maps real coverage from CNN and Good Morning America to national outlets in Chile, Brazil, Nigeria, Kenya, and Spain. Below it, a live leaderboard ranks countries by submissions with 7-day trends. Participation becomes standings people check.
Builders is a verified talent directory. Every profile is certified through Technovation's program, with skills, availability, and reviews. This is the bridge from alumna to working technologist.
Marketplace is a two-sided challenge board. Companies post funded briefs, $50K budgets on 45-day windows, in sectors like agriculture, healthcare, and manufacturing. Verified builders apply to deliver.
How It Works carries the investment argument: a four-pillar flywheel (Competition, Mentor Badge, Ventures, Platform) where each rotation funds the next cohort. By Year 3, cost-per-builder approaches zero.
The first iteration led with the competition itself: "Build something the world needs," fronted by photography of real builders on stage. It made the case emotionally.
The version you see here is the later iteration, reframed around the ecosystem: three audiences in the hero, a strategy page making the flywheel argument, and persona journeys showing one person moving from 14-year-old builder to founder to paid mentor over a lifetime.
The World Build began as a partnership pitch. The partnership hasn't moved forward yet; the platform will. Technovation is now launching it as a real product for the 2027-2028 season.
Design: AC Black | Technovation 2026
prototype site: HERE