A good portfolio project explains why the design exists, what was difficult, and how the final interaction handles reality. These intermediate exercises give you that foundation while keeping the delivery scope manageable.
Designers creating self-directed portfolio work with a credible product story.
What you will practice
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Design a spoken translation flow that helps two people complete a practical conversation while keeping original speech and uncertainty accessible.
Design an asynchronous support chat that moves between automated intake and a human agent while preserving identity, attachments, and status.
Design a camera preview that compares hair color options and turns a chosen look into a realistic salon consultation brief.
Design a focused writing mode that protects a chosen draft, blocks selected distractions, and recovers safely after interruption.
Design a playful selfie challenge for friends that celebrates creative prompts without public appearance rankings or hostile comparison.
Design a rapid group planning flow that finds an available place, confirms attendance, and divides urgent tasks.
Design a group decision flow that turns different schedules, budgets, locations, and interests into one workable meetup plan.
Design an upload workflow that helps a creator prepare metadata, understand processing, and publish a video with the right visibility.
Design a cancellation journey that explains service, data, billing, and team consequences without obstructing a customer's choice.
Design a shared decision board that helps friends agree on dates, destinations, budgets, and access needs without public negotiation pressure.
Design a shared restaurant order that coordinates individual choices, dietary notes, deadlines, totals, and payment failures.
Design a shopper-to-customer approval flow for unavailable groceries with price, quantity, dietary, and response-window context.
Design a hands-busy recipe mode that preserves progress across interruptions, parallel timers, substitutions, and device changes.
Design a consent-based reflection tool for exchanging specific appreciation within a friend group without rankings or appearance judgments.
Design a dating experience for people who prefer interest-led introductions, slower conversation, and clearly bounded first meetings.
Design a service planner for scheduling lawn care, landscaping, and snow removal across changing seasons.
Design a question and answer flow that helps people provide context, assess credibility, and recognize the most useful response.
Design a lesson workspace that combines instruction, editable code, feedback, and progress without crowding a small laptop screen.
Design a video lesson player that lets learners mirror movement, repeat sections, and track practice in limited space.
Design a planning hub that helps a couple compare advice, shortlist vendors, and record decisions without managing the entire wedding.
Design a publishing workspace for scheduling chapters, sharing previews, and keeping readers oriented across a continuing story.
Design a focused streaming home and playback experience for a small catalog with episodes, subtitles, and household profiles.
Design a recurring order experience that predicts supply needs while making quantity, frequency, skips, and price changes easy to control.
Design a conflict-resolution flow that helps collaborators reconcile overlapping document changes without hiding authorship or losing work.
Design a post-meeting flow that converts one agreed decision into a durable record, owned actions, and visible follow-up.
Design an upload and processing flow that preserves progress, explains failures, and gives creators a reliable path to publication.
Design a chapter editor that helps a producer mark, name, validate, and publish navigable sections for one podcast episode.
Design a collaborative playlist flow that makes contribution, ordering, voting, and ownership understandable for a small group.
Design a TV profile experience that keeps recommendations, watch history, and age boundaries useful on a shared household screen.
Design passkey setup that explains where access lives, confirms success, and leaves the person with a usable recovery route.
Design a job history that helps a creative team find prior image runs, understand partial failures, and retry without losing settings or successful results.
Design a shared exhibit kiosk that invites brief exploration, supports different abilities and languages, and resets cleanly for the next visitor.
Design a reservation flow that lets diners understand a restaurant floor plan and request a suitable available table.
Design a shared study space where students preparing for the same exam can plan sessions, exchange materials, and get unstuck together.
Design a thoughtful scheduling flow for sending flowers or gifts on future occasions without losing control of the final choice.
Design a room visualization tool that helps renters test decor choices, compare combinations, and shop with realistic scale information.