Design Buddies Concept Design: Mentors Page
Design Buddies is an inclusive online design community for designers to come together to learn and grow with each other on Discord. Design Buddies offer resources, events, design activities, mentorship, and many more.
My Role
UX Designer
UX Researcher
Tools Used
Figma
My observing eyes
Duration
2 Weeks
THE PROBLEM
Mentees are often seeking mentors within the community, but unsure who is available for a coffee chat and who are the mentors
THE SOLUTION
A page under ‘what we offer’ tab for mentorship.
THE PROCESS
From a survey and conversations with other buddies, asking what mentees would like to gain from a mentor, 90% answered:
- “I would like to know what are their expertise and what they [mentors] can offer”
- “I would like know if they [mentors] speak any languages”
SO I BEGAN THINKING...
When booking a mentor, 90% of the people would want to book someone who is similar to them so, I thought what items would make a mentor profile more personal. I came up with adding the mentor’s languages, interests, what they offer, and fun facts on the mentor page.
I DREW A JOURNEY MAP
I jolt down where the user would want to end up at — which is booking a mentor and work backward on how should users land on the page on where to book them.
WHAT I CAME UP WITH
Creating a page where mentees can learn more about the mentors -- from the languages they speak to favorite design tool
Creating a page on the Design Buddies’ page could help bring more information and credibility about the people within the community.
The mentors profile page could include a fun, short bio about themselves, languages they speak, interests/expertise, what they can help you with, favorites, to make mentors feel more seen and what mentees could connect on.
Having a Q&A page, mentors who answered common questions can be posted here — either from Discord or common question posted asked with a forum.
It can build more trust and mentors wouldn’t have to repeat themselves.
CONCLUSION & FUTURE KEY TAKEAWAYS
Mentorship is important in both mentors and mentees’ career journey because they both can benefit from developing listening skills, increased self-awareness, and practice giving feedback.
Thus, if I could test the results in the future, I’d test if more mentors were booked through Design Buddies by key metrics, and if both the mentee and mentor’s experience is a good way to find more meaningful relationships instead of wasting time of weaving in and out of the mentors list.
In the future, I could also look into adding a reviews/feedback section for credibility