For Design Teams & Hiring Managers
A shared standard, already in use by design teams.
Design teams at product companies use the same DCI assessment individual designers use. It gives a manager a consistent, external reference point for current-team development and hiring, without a separate institutional product to set up.
See How It WorksA Hiring Manager's Actual Problem Right Now
Visual polish no longer separates strong designers from weak ones.
AI-assisted tools make it fast to produce a polished case study, a clean interface, a professional-sounding process write-up. That's true for a strong designer and a weak one alike.
DCI replaces the five-minute portfolio scan with a structured, third-party-reviewed score against the same ten metrics every time.
If You're a Smaller Team
You don't need a design lead on staff to evaluate design talent.
A small company hiring its first or only designer usually doesn't have anyone in-house qualified to judge design work beyond "I like how it looks." DCI gives you an independent, expert-reviewed score, the same rubric used by product companies with full design teams.
How Teams Actually Use DCI Today
Individual assessment, shared with a manager.
A designer completes a DCI assessment the same way any individual does. If they publish their public profile, they share that link directly with their manager: a real, independently reviewed result.
Company-distributed codes.
Some teams distribute a code that covers the assessment fee. Each designer still signs in and submits individually, through the same platform everyone uses.
Already in use by design teams at 25+ product companies.
Company names and logos will appear here once confirmation and brand assets are collected from each team.
There's no separate enterprise product to evaluate and no contract to sign. If your team wants to distribute assessment codes, or you have questions about how a manager reviews a shared result, reach out directly.
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