STARTUP LINK

Startup Link is the University of Melbourne's student-run startup programme. Founders bring a problem, the programme pairs them with student teams, and somebody has to turn "we need a website and an app" into a scope a team can actually finish before the semester ends. That is the job.

The current engagement, from August 2026, is a healthcare marketplace startup. It runs on more surfaces than it looks like from outside: a marketing site, an operations portal, an iOS app, and the internal tools the team coordinates the business in. I reviewed all of them against each other, then redesigned them as one system. The client is not named here until they agree to be.

There is no single stack for the role. Each engagement picks its own, and the current one is React and Tailwind on the web with SwiftUI for the app. What carries between engagements is the method.

Findings are tied to a surface, a severity and a fix, so a review can be argued with line by line instead of taken as taste. Colour, type and spacing get declared once as tokens and printed in the gallery, which ends the "which blue" conversation before it starts. And the recommendation gets built far enough to click, because a redesign that runs can be measured against the live product, and a founder can hand it to whoever builds next.