🔹 What You’ll Do

Participants will showcase their ability to create seamless and engaging user experiences through intuitive design. This category emphasizes both visual aesthetics and user-centered problem solving.

🔹 Competition Phases

Elimination Round – Onboarding Flow Design (Online)

Receive a case study and design the onboarding flow of a new app. Submit a video explanation (max 5 minutes) of your design and thought process.

Semi-Final – Interactive Prototype (Online)

Develop an interactive prototype based on the same case study and explain your design process in a video (max 10 minutes).

National Final – Infographic Animation + Presentation (In-person)

Design an infographic animation for a regional campaign (within a given time frame) and present it live to a panel of judges.

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🧠 Judging Criteria

• User Research & Insights: Identify user needs, pain points, and behaviors and translate them into actionable design insights.

• Journey Mapping: The clarity and completeness of your user flow from start to finish, showing how users navigate to achieve their goals.

• Visual Thinking: The creativity, consistency, and usability of your design choices, including layout, color, typography, and accessibility.

• Communication Clarity: How effectively you explain your design process, decisions, and trade-offs, both in your documentation and presentation.

🔹 What You’ll Do

Build functional, responsive, and creative web or mobile applications to solve real-world problems. This category tests coding skills, technical depth, and the ability to ship working software.

🔹 Competition Phases

Elimination Round – Algorithm & Coding Challenge (Online)

Solve a programming problem and submit your code along with a video (max 5 minutes) explaining your logic.

Semi-Final – Interactive Prototype (Online)

Based on the previous case study, explain the architecture and approach to a hackathon challenge in a video (max 10 minutes). Submit complete code and documentation.

National Final – Infographic Animation + Presentation (In-person)

Build a working feature within a limited time (1–2 hours) based on a new case study and present it live. A starter template will be provided with core components like UI and authentication.

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⚙️ Technical Requirements (Not limited to)

Web: HTML, CSS, JavaScript with React, Vue.js, or Angular.

Mobile: Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, or React Native.

Allowed to use third-party libraries and frameworks.

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🧠 Judging Criteria

• Prototype Functionality: How well the app or feature works as intended, including performance, stability, and technical accuracy.

• UI Craftsmanship: The quality of the interface design, attention to detail in visuals, and consistency with modern design standards.

• UX Flow & Responsiveness: The smoothness, intuitiveness, and responsiveness of the user experience across different devices and contexts.

• Problem Solving & Trade-offs: How effectively you approach challenges, handle edge cases, and explain decisions made under constraints.

• Innovation & Creativity: The originality and impact of your solution, and how it adds unique value compared to typical approaches.

• Communication Clarity: The ability to clearly present your process, reasoning, and technical details in a structured, understandable way.

🔹 What You’ll Do

Tackle real-world problems using data analysis, machine learning, and AI modeling. This category evaluates your ability to extract insights and build models with practical applications.

🔹 Competition Phases

Elimination Round – Idea Submission (Online)

Using a case study, submit a brief proposal outlining your concept, including data understanding, analysis plan, and approach. Template will be provided.

Semi-Final – Development Phase (Online)

Develop your project, including model building, testing, and documentation. Submit your full code repository hosted on a platform (e.g., GitHub) for transparency.

National Final – Presentation (In-person)

Present your project live to the judging panel, focusing on clarity of approach and real-world impact.

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⚙️ Technical Requirements (Not limited to)

Languages: Python, R, Julia

Libraries: TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, etc.

Data Sources: Provided or publicly available datasets (upon approval)

Allowed to use third-party libraries and frameworks.

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🧠 Judging Criteria

• Feature Design Completion: The thoroughness and accuracy of your model design, including preprocessing, feature engineering, and alignment with the problem.

• UX Reasoning & Trade-offs: How well you justify your modeling decisions, evaluate trade-offs, and balance accuracy, interpretability, and usability.

• Visual Clarity & Consistency: The effectiveness of your charts, dashboards, or visual outputs in conveying insights clearly and consistently.

• Creativity & Lateral Thinking: The originality of your approach and ability to explore innovative methods beyond standard techniques.

• Presentation & Q&A Delivery: How clearly and confidently you explain your solution and respond to judges’ questions.

• Design File Readiness: The quality, structure, and reproducibility of your submitted files, ensuring they are well-documented and usable.