Anna Diyanova

Bricio began as an idea for a service that I wanted to bring to life through interface design. When I shared it with friends and colleagues, their encouragement gave me the confidence to enter the competition. Receiving a Silver Award means a great deal to me. It recognizes an independently developed concept and encourages me to keep sharing my work beyond my immediate professional circle.

The starting point was a simple question: when something breaks at home, how do you know which specialist to call? My award-winning entry explores how a mobile app can guide users from uncertainty to a booking request. I developed it as a concept and interactive prototype, combining camera based AI assistance with a manual service catalog. For me, it represents how technology can help people navigate unfamiliar tasks.

The central decision was to start with the user’s problem rather than asking them to choose a profession they might know little about. The proposed AI flow connects a photo of the issue to guidance, specialist recommendations, and a booking request. Equally important, users can browse manually, add details, and edit their requests. The assistant provides direction without taking control away from them.

One challenge was making the AI assistant helpful without turning a practical task into a lengthy conversation. I refined the flow from scanning to recommendations and booking, keeping the next action visible at each stage. Connecting this flow to the same specialist profiles and booking screens used in the manual catalog also helped create a consistent experience.

I hope this recognition helps introduce my work to product teams and collaborators who value thoughtful design. It is still too early to attribute specific opportunities to the award. For now, its most immediate impact is personal: it has given me greater confidence to share my ideas and pursue new projects.

The most meaningful response came from my friends and colleagues. I initially shared my award-winning entry as an idea expressed through a set of screens, without necessarily planning to enter a competition. They encouraged me to share it more widely and submit it for consideration. Their support helped me take a step I might otherwise have postponed.

Start with a problem you can explain clearly, then ensure your design decisions address it. For a competition entry, help the audience understand the reasoning behind the screens, not just their appearance. Be honest about what you have built, what you have tested, and what remains a hypothesis. A clear, thoughtful story is more valuable than exaggerated claims.

The rapid development of AI makes this an exciting time to work in design. I’m interested in using it to improve my workflows and explore beyond interface mockups, including coding, websites, plugins, and bots. I want to become more capable of taking an idea from concept to something people can actually use, while keeping usability and human judgment at the center.

You do not have to feel completely confident before sharing your work. Start with people whose opinions you trust, listen to their feedback, and give yourself room to improve. That encouragement mattered in my own experience. Competitions can provide a useful deadline and an opportunity to articulate your thinking, but an award should never become the only measure of your work’s value.

Let’s share not only polished outcomes but also the questions and decisions behind them. As new tools make it easier to create, I believe thoughtful discussion becomes even more important. Through product work and mentorship, I value exchanges that challenge our perspectives, deepen our understanding of a problem, and help us create more useful solutions.

I would like to dedicate this achievement to my husband and son, who support me in everything I do and encourage me to keep moving forward. Their belief in me gives me the confidence to explore, learn, and take on new challenges. With their support by my side, I never want to stop growing.

My award-winning entry is a mobile app concept that helps people move from “What’s wrong, and who should I call?” to a clear next step in getting their home repaired. Its purpose is to make an unfamiliar and potentially stressful situation easier to navigate.

My next focus is growing within a product team and contributing to new projects. I’m also exploring AI assisted workflows that allow me to experiment with code and build websites, plugins, and bots alongside my design work. What interests me most is bringing these skills together: understanding a need, designing a user friendly experience, and finding more ways to turn ideas into reality.