Co-Founder Matching App
Due to the NDA, adding specific images or details of unreleased features is prohibited. This document contains some of the major features worked on that will been released around May or early June.
Timeline
Team
Disciplines
Role
As a Product Designer, I led the development of app concept into high-fidelity prototypes, ensuring a seamless design-to-development handoff. My role involved competitive analysis, user surveys, and iterative design for a user-centered co-founder matching platform.
Background
Founder Match is an AI-powered platform that connects entrepreneurs with their ideal co-founders, fostering successful startup ecosystems.
Our internship kicked off with a 3-day hackathon! We tackled a challenging problem statement by brainstorming ideas, researching solutions, and building a MVP prototype.
Design Gallery
Problem Statement
It's hard for startup founders to find the right cofounder. They struggle because there aren't enough good ways to meet potential cofounders with the skills they need and share their vision for business.
This problem can make it take longer to start a business, lead to teams that don't work well together, and sometimes even cause startups to fail. Solving this issue is essential for helping more startups succeed.
Goals
To create a platform that connects startup founders with potential cofounders based on complementary skills, shared values, and mutual business goals.
MVP Prototyping
Develop high-fidelity designs based on thorough planning and research.
Documentation including a business plan, UX design mockups, and a pitch deck.
We worked together on a mural to outline the process of our MVP to get our project started, beginning with user research to ideate and test solutions.
Research
We conducted SWOT Analysis to strategically assess our platform and identify areas for improvement/growth, and prepare for potential challenges, helping us make better design decisions.
User Survey
We ran user surveys in our design sprint because it's efficient in a relatively short amount of time.
Top Insights from Survey
How might we develop an effective matchmaking filtering system that allows founder's to easily specify and find potential co-founder's with the desired skills, values, and goals, enhancing the precision and relevance of the matchmaking process?
Ideate
We kicked off with a whiteboard brainstorming session, plotting out a co-founder matching platform that's intuitive and meets founders' specific needs.
For our MVP, we didn't want to overload ourselves with too much. We started with a prioritizing which features to work on first by categorizing them.
User Flow of Login/Signup
We crafted a detailed path/scenario for matching founders together
Site Map
Sketches
Mobile Mockups
In addition to the desktop designs, I created mobile mockups for Foundermatch to ensure a seamless user experience across devices.
These designs prioritize functionality, responsiveness, and ease of navigation, maintaining a consistent visual identity on smaller screens.
Learnings
Adaptability and Collaboration
Our first success in the hackathon taught us the vital importance of adaptability and collaboration in achieving end-to-end product development as a team.