Role
UX Designer
TEAM
4 UX designers
TOOLS
Figma, Figjam
Despite tech being a field of innovation, systemic barriers persist—especially for women of color looking to advance their careers. Many mentorship and networking platforms feel transactional, making it difficult to form genuine professional relationships.
Developed in just 48 hours during StarHacks, an international hackathon themed Building Bridges, Femtor is a platform designed to provide accessible mentorship and meaningful connections for underrepresented women in tech.
View process →Key features at a glance
Sign-up pages
Problem
Traditional networking often feels transactional and impersonal.
Solution
Designed a profile-driven sign-up flow, allowing users to receive personalized mentor recommendations based on their interests.
add interests and hobbies
Problem
Users connect more easily with professionals who share common interests.
Solution
A dedicated bio section lets users highlight their interests, hobbies, and career aspirations, making mentor-mentee matching more engaging and relatable.
Integrated video calling for mentor sessions
The platform features in-app video calling, allowing mentors and mentees to connect based on shared skills, industry topics, or roles.
Once a user books a mentoring session, they can communicate with their mentor via messaging and reschedule or cancel if needed.
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The Feed page
Mentors or mentees can post opportunities, inspiration, resources, and more for the community.
Through this feature users can engage with these posts by liking, commenting, sharing, or saving them.
Research
TARGET USERS
Underrepresented women in tech including students, career switchers, and early professionals.
RESEARCH METHODS
Online Interviews, Secondary research
Hypothesis
What do we currently understand about our users?
01.
Lack of accessible mentorship networks
02.
Intimidated to reach out to professionals for help and guidance.
03.
Challenges in securing jobs due to experience barriers.
Insights
We created a persona to better understand the needs and pain points of our target audience. It was a valuable tool, enabling us to put the user at the center of our design process.
It was discovered that our audience felt many frustrations with professional networking and building genuine connections with people because of how transactional their interactions felt.
There should be an option to select mentors.
I will reach out to mentors if I see we share similar experiences or interests.
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Ideating
We used an interactive Figjam board to affinity map the data into themes and then began ideating solutions.
Design System
User flow sketch
The user flow sketch outlines the steps that our user takes to accomplish a specific task or goal within the Femtor application.
Wireframes
After brainstorming many ideas, we moved on to wireframing in Figma, starting with lo-fidelity, and collaborated to create clickable interactions on the high-fidelity prototype.
Final design
Challenges
🌍 Remote Collaboration Across Time Zones – Our team adapted by maintaining an efficient workflow through async communication and structured task management.
⚡ Balancing Speed & Quality – With just 48 hours, we prioritized impactful features while ensuring a smooth user experience.
Impact
🔹Best Overall Hack among 75+ teams at StarHacks.
🔹Praised by industry judges from Microsoft, Twitter, Intuit & Wells Fargo.
🔹Developed an interactive prototype bridging mentorship gaps in tech.
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