Drawerrr is a challenge project-based learning and portfolio-building platform, mainly for job seekers who want to enter or deepen their careers in the UX/UI field, and also for participants concerned with social, environmental, and governance issues.
Purpose The platform combines learning with practice, allowing participants to accumulate demonstrable project experience while solving real-world problems. The challenge content is aligned with the United Nations and USAID Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), covering topics such as energy efficiency, circular economy, water resource protection, green transportation, biodiversity conservation, employment and economic growth, social inequality, quality education, health and well-being, sustainable cities and communities, poverty and hunger, peace, justice and institutions, anti-corruption, and unethical procurement.
Main Capabilities
- Participate in real challenges: choose a challenge from the above topics and build a solution.
- Team collaboration: participate alone or team up with like-minded peers to jointly address social, environmental, and governance challenges.
- Mentor guidance: receive guidance and support from industry professionals, mentors with many years of experience in complex challenges.
- Expert feedback: after submitting a solution, receive feedback and insights from industry experts and hiring managers.
- AI assistance: receive AI backup support when needed (specific feature details are not yet provided).
- Community recognition: solutions have the opportunity to receive community recognition and be shown to hiring managers.
- Monthly results: results are announced at the beginning of each month and expert feedback is received.
How to Use
- Create an account.
- Choose a challenge you want to solve.
- Solve the problem according to the guidelines (individually or as a team).
- Submit the solution.
- Receive expert feedback and view results at the beginning of each month.
The platform also provides a mentor recruitment entry (Become a Mentor) and a jury panel entry (Join the jury panel).
Applicable Scenarios
- UX/UI job seekers who want to enrich their portfolios with real projects and directly reach hiring managers.
- Learners who want to improve their technical skills and social impact by solving SDG-related issues.
- Individuals or teams who want to receive industry mentor guidance, expert feedback, and community recognition.
- People concerned with sustainable development and the public interest who want to turn ideas into practical solutions.
Limitations Regarding whether the platform charges fees, pricing, specific AI feature details, mentor matching mechanisms, challenge deadlines, team size limits, rules for multiple participation, etc., the materials do not yet provide clear information.
