Founding Builders
Featured Builders turns one real project into a polished feature you can share and be recognized for: the constraints you faced, the trade-offs you made, and the decision another designer could learn from. You don’t need a perfect case study. You need one decision worth talking about.
AI-assisted course design
“The feature didn’t just show what I made. It showed the call I made when AI tried to take over the strategy.”
Why builders raise their hand
A clean, linkable page about your work. Drop it in your portfolio, your LinkedIn, or your next interview: proof of work that isn’t just another bullet point.
Yours to shareWe feature the decision, not just the artifact. The thinking behind your work is what gets seen, remembered, and respected by other designers.
Proof over polishEvery feature includes a thoughtful Lab Lens: how we see the work and where it could go next. Specific signal most designers almost never get.
The Lab LensMore than a showcase
Featured Builder
Thoughtful learning design in practice
Our first Featured Builder
Ronni submitted an AI-assisted bloodborne pathogens compliance course built with Claude. The feature studies the design decisions underneath it: accessibility constraints, scenario structure, and the role of human judgment when AI enters the build process.
Builder challenges
Featured Builders is where community work gets recognized. Builder Challenges is where I open up my own practice: challenges I create, challenges I enter, and the design decisions I make along the way.
Three customer emails become realistic decision practice: diagnose the issue, interpret incomplete evidence, choose a move, and write a response that earns trust.
Choose your next build
Choose what you want to practice and how much time you have. You’ll get a realistic workplace problem, a meaningful constraint, and a systems prompt that pushes the idea beyond another course.
Decision practice · weekend build
Idea 1 of 8A customer service representative confidently gives customers outdated information. Build an experience that helps them recognize uncertainty, verify the answer, and communicate without losing the customer’s trust.
No required authoring tool. Build the response the problem actually needs.
Strengthen the thinking
Already have a project, or just chose a prompt above? The free 5-Day Challenge gives you a low-pressure way to practice the same thinking Featured Builders celebrates.
A lot of strong builders don’t submit because their work feels too ordinary or too hard to explain. The 5-Day Challenge helps you turn one learning request, course, prototype, or project into a clearer systems story.
A nudge from Kip
Most people wait until their work feels “impressive enough.” You don’t have to. Check what you already know; if you can answer most of these, you’re ready to start.
Start by naming the problem: that’s usually where the useful story lives.
How it works
Your work won’t be published automatically. If it’s a fit, I’ll reach out before anything goes live.
Who you are, what you built, the problem it solved, and why it might help other designers.
We look for a clear problem, a useful design decision, and work that can teach the community something.
If it’s a fit, we draft the feature with you: the problem, the build, the design move, the lesson.
It’s your work and your name. The feature gives it context and a place to live and be shared.
Submit your work
Share what you made, the problem it helped solve, and what another designer could learn from it. That’s enough to start.
Not ready to submit? Explore Pionati instead: community, Design Reviews, The Bench, and challenges before a project is ready to be featured.