Designing a Digital Platform for Local Artisans in Nairobi
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Designing a Digital Platform for Local Artisans in Nairobi. Intermediate challenge in design. Designing real products under real constraints, earn a blockcha...
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
How can CraftConnect design a digital platform business model that empowers artisans and creates a sustainable marketplace?
This is not a design exercise. It is the work a product designer does between a brief and a shipped interface. That distinction matters to every hiring manager who has seen candidates redesign Spotify's homepage and none who have worked under real product constraints.
When you finish, you will have something most graduates do not: a real-world deliverable, verified by Ewance, that you can show to a hiring manager and say "I did this. Here is the proof."
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Apply platform business model patterns to a social enterprise context
- Design value propositions for two-sided markets
- Evaluate revenue models for digital platforms in emerging markets
- Integrate social impact goals with business sustainability
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Digital Business Models
Bachelor · Digital
Strong alignment
This challenge maps to Digital Business Models at the Bachelor level. It sharpens the same practical skills your coursework expects — but in a real industry context with actual constraints and deliverables.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Platform Business Models
Apply platform business models to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Value Proposition Design
Apply value proposition design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- User Experience Design
Apply user experience design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Social Impact
Apply social impact to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Business Model Canvas
Apply business model canvas to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles: