MyTalent — a home for every talent

The client wanted to move away from the old sports-looking star: keep the star, but make it cleaner, more confident and not only about sports. The search came down to three directions: a person, creativity and connections. We picked the star-person, and later I updated the sign: the head breaks out of the icon and the star leans, as if the person is moving.

I came up with the mascot so the interface would not feel dry. It grew out of the logo: a round floating head over a soft star body. I generated it with Nano Banana from one reference and a fixed prompt template, so the character stays the same whether it sings, paints or searches.

Launch a social network for talents in three months, on the web and in the app. Requirements came from the PM and from regular calls with the client. We designed for two people:

Design ran almost in parallel with development, so we worked in short loops. Every feature was split into epics and user stories, so each one could be designed, handed off and built on its own, and shared components came first.

With Oleksandr we took gluestack v2 as a starting point and rebuilt it almost from scratch to fit the product. One system covered both the web and the mobile app.