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Dubstech, is a registered student organization at the University of Washington which organizes tech themed workshops, competitions and talks. No matter your major, background, or skill level, everyone is welcome at our casual meetups and workshops. We are an all inclusive community. Come and make friends, learn new skills, and create the future, at Dubstech.

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https://www.instagram.com/dubstechuw/
Industry
Education
Company size
11-50 employees
Type
Nonprofit
Founded
2015
Specialties
Technology, Education, UX Design, Data Science, Data Visualization, Software Engineering, Workshops, Certificate Programs, Hackathons, and Talks

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    Join us in congratulating Mehak Munir, Ahmad Assabbagh and Dhiraj Deepak Deshpande for their special mention in the mental-well being track at Protothon 2026. Their project, For You, is a mental well-being app designed for men built around a simple but important insight: most men don't have a dedicated space where they can be honest about what they're carrying without judgment. A place to open up. Feel less alone. And get support in a way that actually feels approachable. Well done to the three of you for tackling something that needed to be designed. 💚 Slides in the comments. #Product #UX #Protothon

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    Mehak Munir

    Last Saturday, I participated in Protothon 2026, organized by DubsTech and Design Buddies with my amazing team members Ahmad Assabbagh and Dhiraj Deepak Deshpande. Thank you both for being such great teammates. Our project received a special mention in the Mental Wellbeing track, where we competed against more than 50 global teams. Since this was my first competition, this recognition meant a lot to me and truly gave me a confidence boost. I am excited to participate in more events and keep learning through experiences like this. For our project, we designed a mental well-being application specifically for men, focusing on creating a safe and judgment-free space where they can open up, feel less alone, and receive support in a way that feels approachable. I am also attaching the link to our presentation. I would really appreciate any feedback, as the idea can definitely use more refining and development, especially since we put it together in just one day. Link: https://lnkd.in/gqY6H3Gb

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    🥇 Congratulations to Tessa Lee and Sarah Li for coming 1st place in the Classic Track at Protothon 2026! Their project, BuffBuddies, is a fitness app for first-time gym goers where each user gets a capybara that gets buff as they get buff. Train chest day? Your capybara's chest grows. Skip a session? It shrinks. Our judges loved it and said "The capybara concept really stands out. It's distinctive, memorable, and visually appealing. The capybara developing different muscles as the user trains adds a layer of personality and motivation to the experience." Well deserved! Checkout their project here: 📊 Slide Deck: https://lnkd.in/edruZiuJ 📱 Prototype: https://lnkd.in/eegx84MQ #design #ux #product #protothon

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    Sarah Li

    Last weekend, I entered DubsTech’s 2026 Protothon with limited fitness knowledge and left with a 1st place award in the Classic Track for redesigning a fitness app. For 28 hours straight, Tessa Lee and I built BuffBuddies — an app designed to help first-time gym goers feel more confident, supported, and motivated throughout their training journey. Our concept? A workout companion that grows with you. Yes, it's a swole capybara. As users complete workouts, their capybara visibly builds muscle based on the areas they train. Skip sessions, it shrinks. Work out, it grows. The goal was to make progress feel immediate, visual, and a little harder to ignore. Despite my lack of expertise on the subject, working on this project opened my eyes to how much growth can come from designing for an unfamiliar space. I was able to notice which aspects of the fitness experience felt confusing or intimidating, and that natural uncertainty pushed me to approach BuffBuddies with more curiosity and empathy. Feel free to check out BuffBuddies below! Slide Deck: https://lnkd.in/edruZiuJ Prototype: https://lnkd.in/eegx84MQ A huge thank you to my teammate, Tessa Lee, for powering through this challenge with me. I'd also like to thank the organizers, Riya Kulkarni and Zoshua Colah for putting together such an impactful and unforgettable experience!

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    Join us in congratulating Ada Öykü Apaydın for coming 3rd place in the classic track at Protothon 2026! Her app concept Gym Buddy, is a fitness app that gives users a virtual gym companion designed around them, not the other way around. Users get a deeply personalized onboarding experience that asks users about their preferred coaching style, injury history, and weekly availability so no two Gym Buddies are the same. In the age of apps that hand everyone the same companion, Ada designed one that actually listens first by asking the question "what do you want from a workout partner?" We are extremely proud to celebrate her project 🎉 📊 Slides: https://lnkd.in/gX5kytvV 📱 Prototype: https://lnkd.in/gcfU59tJ #UX #design #protothon

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    Ada Öykü Apaydın

    I am happy to share that I placed 3rd at the DubsTech 2026 Protothon Classic Track. Huge thanks to speakers, judges, and people who made this competition possible. Because of some problems, seminars, planning part, and sleeping, I had around 11 straight hours to make the Figma design, drawing elements, design a new logo, and making the presentation slides. If I were back at the time, I would probably plan my time better. Because of the time limit, I didn’t have enough time to implement all the functions I had planned. I quickly selected the most important parts and how to do them quickly. With this, there was at least a final submission at hand that I was pleased with. I would definitely give more time to both making the slides and polishing the Figma (which I didn’t even give a minute to). I nearly had no time to look at the same place a second time. Because of that, there are small things that shouldn’t be where they are, some small mistakes, and some things that I would really like to change. But overall, I had fun and got so much experience from this. I understood what I should do and do better. Also, all the seminars were really informative. Again, thanks to DubsTech and Design Buddies for organizing this event and to everyone involved. You can check my submissions: ·      https://lnkd.in/gX5kytvV ·      https://lnkd.in/gcfU59tJ

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    Amy Le

    Last year, when I participated in a design hackathon for the first time, I was absorbing the experience and was quickly reminded of how difficult participating in hackathons can be when you’re on a time crunch and running on caffeine and little to no sleep. This time around, I chose to work more intentionally (and with more sleep). Last weekend, my small team of three took on the challenge of designing a platform for helping homeowners find trusted interior designers that are the right fit for them. “Did you take home any prizes?” No, and after reading our feedback and checking out all the winners, I could see where we had room to grow. However, I felt extremely proud of how much we accomplished despite the constraints. Sure, we could have used AI more to expedite the process, but it was fun to work through the friction and just design on a blank canvas again. Plus, this was both of my teammates’ first time participating in any sort of hackathon, so it was a joy getting to work together and seeing all the effort they were putting in. Thanks to Aki and Sierra for being such great teammates! So many creative minds gathered virtually for Protothon, and it was fascinating to see the different designs and concepts people came up with for their respective tracks. Big thanks to everyone at DubsTech and Design Buddies for organizing this event again! #Protothon2026 #designhackathon #Dubstech #DesignBuddies

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    Adem Wijewickrema

    Last weekend, my team and I took an idea and prototyped a fully realized product in 48 hours. I participated in my first UX/UI hackathon hosted by DubsTech and University of Washington. My group consisted of Yi Lyu, Remy Le, Noah Kasakaitis and it was extremely rewarding to work with them all through this sprint. We built SteadyGo, a travel planning app helping the elderly go on trips without being held back from the overwhelming complexities of planning, booking and navigating a trip. SteadyGo was our answer to that problem. SteadyGo has 4 main features: - trip planning (destinations, flights, hotels) - AI customized itinerary based on your interests and preferences, - Document organizing and preparation to help navigate different visas and entry requirements - An in app AI assistant named Stedi who is available through the whole process and has a chat window accessible at all times for anything and everything. The case study will be live on my website within the week, keep an eye out at https://lnkd.in/dYhdkdz4. #uxdesign #uidesign #hackathon #productdesign

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    DubsTech

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    🌟 A Huge Thank You to Our Incredible Protothon 2026 Mentors! 🌟 This year, our mentors played an essential role in supporting participants throughout Protothon 2026 by reviewing projects, offering thoughtful critiques, and helping teams refine their ideas before final submission. Their guidance encouraged participants to think deeper about their solutions, strengthen their presentations, and push their projects further. Your contributions helped shape a truly valuable experience for each of our participants involved! - Suraj Barthy - Yani L. - Nithya Subramaniam

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    🌟 A Huge Thank You to Our Incredible Protothon 2026 Judges! 🌟 This year, 34 expert judges joined us at Protothon 2026 and made an incredible impact by reviewing 195 project submissions across five tracks! Their thoughtful feedback, detailed critique, gave participants the opportunity to reflect, improve, and grow, especially meaningful after two intense days of hard work and creativity. Your contributions helped shape a truly valuable experience for each of our participants involved. Mookesh Patel — Arizona State University Augustina Liu — Toast Adam Syed — Skywalker Pragya Srivastava — Allstate Amol Sood — Oracle Pratik Joglekar — HubSpot Darshil Vora — Salesforce EJ (Eunjoo) Lim Lim — Google Jay H. — Meta Alice (Hanhui) L. Li — HealthStream Purvi Joshi — Amazon Web Services Stan K. — AngelList Sheraz Butt — Piktochart Simran Tank — JPMorgan Chase Nuoran Chen — The New York Times Sonia S. — Google Haopeng Liu — Microsoft Jatin Gupta — T-Mobile Sayed Abdelaal‬‏ Abdelaal — Atos Yuchuan Yu — Microsoft Aditi Gupta — Microsoft Yumei Feng — Orby.ai Shiva Sah — Cisco Lingshuang Kong — TikTok Kruti Mehta — Additive Agency Nagesh Sawant — T-Mobile Zubin Chopra — LinkedIn Evan Luputra — Expedia Group Stefanie M. McLaren — Grammarly Rishabh Aggarwal — OpenAI Afsal Basith — TPConnects Rohan Pal — Abnormal AI Olumide Durotoluwa — M-KOPA Upendra Kumar — Early Warning Services #design #ux #hackathon #protothon

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    Su Hyun J.

    When do you feel most anxious while traveling? Not during planning. Not on the flight. It's the moment you step off the plane and have to get yourself to the hotel. That first walk into an unfamiliar city, no matter how prepared you are. That was the question our team started with at DubsTech Protothon last weekend, a 28-hour design sprint with 550+ participants across 5 tracks. Everyone on the team felt it immediately. So that became the problem we designed for. We chose China specifically because it's the hardest version of that problem. No Google Maps, no Uber, cards that don't work, a language barrier most travelers aren't ready for, often a late night arrival on top of it all. If we could design for that, we could design for anywhere. The result was first(24), a travel companion focused entirely on the airport to hotel window for first-time solo travelers to China. The biggest lesson wasn't about the design itself. We spent the right amount of time on research and problem framing early on, but we weren't ruthless enough about which screens to build first. We tried to cover too much in parallel, and the slide deck ended up rushed. Good scoping on the problem, weaker on execution prioritization. We didn't place among 195 submissions. But the question we started with still feels like the right one :) Thanks to Murphy Wei, Shuxian(Suzy) Hong, and Daniel (Youngpyung) Lee Lee for the late night and the good work! #UXDesign #ProductDesign #Hackathon 

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    Murphy Wei

    At DubsTech Protothon last weekend, a 28-hour design sprint with 550+ participants, our team built First(24), a travel companion for the airport-to-hotel window for first-time solo travelers to China. When do you feel most anxious while traveling? Not during planning. Not on the flight. It's the moment you step off the plane and have to get yourself to the hotel. That first walk into an unfamiliar city, no matter how prepared you are. That was the question our team started with at DubsTech Protothon last weekend What we learned: we scoped the problem well but weren't ruthless enough about execution prioritization. We spread too thin, and the final deck suffered for it. We didn't place among 195 submissions, but the question we started with still feels like the right one. Thanks to Su Hyun J., Shuxian(Suzy) Hong, and Daniel (Youngpyung) Lee for putting up late night and the good work. 🙌 Check out more details about this Hackathon and our project: https: //https://lnkd.in/gNSVXn4V and our Prototype: https://lnkd.in/gEPn_ASd #Hackathon #HardMode #SoftwareAI

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    Rachel Sadeh

    Just wrapped up the DubsTech Protothon this weekend, and even though we didn’t win, I’m walking away with a lot. My team and I worked on an enterprise design challenge: designing an equipment tracking system for places like schools, gyms, and IT departments. At first, it felt like a pretty straightforward problem—tracking inventory, but as we dug in, it became clear the real issue was the effort required to keep large systems up to date. Managers end up spending more time logging information, fixing errors, and chasing down missing items than actually managing the equipment. Instead of building another dashboard, we focused on simplifying the core interaction and designed BorrowIT—a scan-first system built around a simple idea: What if tracking inventory took seconds instead of minutes? Everything starts with a scan. From there, the system detects what’s needed and lets you complete check-ins or check-outs in just a few steps, while automatically updating ownership, condition, and history. Really grateful for my teammates Pranav, Arjun, Ruth, and Rumi and the chance to work through a messy, real-world problem together!

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