CreateSC 2025 Designathon
Nationwide VIrtual UI/UX design-a-thon that challenges undergraduate students to design digital solutions to real-life challenges.
About
CreateSC is USC's premier UI/UX design-a-thon, where teams of 1–4 students come together to design digital solutions to real-world challenges — brought to you by Innovative Design at USC.
This year, we are Digitizing Tangible Experiences.
Join us on April 12 at 11 AM PDT for an action-packed 2 days of speaker events, professional development workshops, and 24 hours of hands-on design!
Special thanks to our partners: Asus, Figma, Arc, Notion, Visme, Flutterflow, and Rewriting the Code!
Speakers
Get excited for our amazing speaker engagements - all hosted on Zoom!
Keynote: The Magnetic Power of Going All-In
Join us for our opening ceremony on April 12th, 11 AM - 12 PM PDT! This keynote speech is brought to you by:
Naheel Jawaid
Founder @ Silicon Valley School of Design
Naheel has built 0-1 products at Google like AR Glasses & AI Creation Tools. He also helped start a YouTube channel around hip hop and runs a design accelerator for the next gen of top 1% designers.
Workshop: Designing "Feel" Into Interfaces
Flora Guo
Independent Designer + Incoming Product Designer @ Vercel
Flora is a Toronto-based independent designer crafting thoughtful, delightfully odd, and always curious digital things. Soon at Vercel NYC.
Judges & Mentors
Product Designer @ Tinder
Product Designer @ NBCU
Product Designer @ Visa
Visual Designer @ Passes
Product Designer @ LinkedIn
UX Designer @ SAP
Product Designer, ex Apple, Meta
Product Designer @ RedBull
Founder @ Silicon Valley School of Design
Product Designer @ Solace
Product Designer @ Meta
Prizes
$3K+ Prize Pool for the Top 3 Teams
choose 1 from:
Each participant in the top 3 teams can pick [ 1 ] item from the below prize pool, in the order of team placement:
ASUS ProArt Pen DISPLAY
Quantity: 1
MSRP $899
ASUS ProArt Display
Quantity: 1
MSRP $499
ASUS ZenScreen Smart Monitor
Quantity: 1
MSRP $399
ASUS ProArt Display
Quantity: 1
MSRP $359
Apple Airpods 4
Quantity: 2
MSRP $129
Visa E-Gift Card
Quantity: 6
$50 Value
also get…
In addition, each participant in the top 3 teams will also receive a [ Prize Basket ] , which will include CreateSC, Figma, and Arc merchandise items (~$50 value):
CREATESC MERCH
FIGMA MERCH
ARC MERCH
*Innovative Design at USC reserves the right to make final decisions regarding prize distribution and eligibility.
Schedule
All in Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) and held online. Zoom links will be sent to participants.
Saturday, April 12
Opening Ceremony
11 AM — 12 PM
Prompt Released
12 PM
Workshop
2 PM - 3 PM
Mentorship Hours #1
4 PM - 6 PM
Sunday, april 13
Mentorship Hours #2
9 AM - 11 AM
Submission Deadline
12 PM
Finalists Announced
4 PM
Finalists Presentation
6 PM - 8 PM
Winners Announced
Night
Rules
Violation of any of the following rules will result in disqualification:
1
All members of your team must be an undergraduate college student with an associated institutional email.
2
Each team is allowed only one submission.
3
Each team can have up to 4 members.
4
All CreateSC entries must be original. Any plagiarized content will result in disqualification.
5
All work must be created exclusively during the event period. Pre-existing work is not allowed.
6
Late submissions will not be accepted.
7
Any changes made after Noon April 13th will render the submission ineligible for judging.
8
All uses of AI must be clearly documented.
*Innovative Design at USC reserves the right to make the final interpretation of all rules as needed.
FAQ
Our Team
The faces behind CreateSC - feel free to connect with us on LinkedIn, we would love to meet you!
Co-President
Co-President
VP of Externals
VP of Marketing
Professional Development Chair
Sponsorship Chair
Outreach Chair
Operations Chair
Creative Community Chair
Content Chair
Merchandising Chair
Externals Intern
Externals Intern
Externals Intern
Externals Intern
Marketing Intern
