Domain: UI/UX , Product Analysis
Team Size: 1 - 3
Day: Day 2
Venue: Windows Programming Lab (CSE)
Time: 10 : 00 AM
"Breaking apps, building ideas"
Preethi Prative
+91 9626351555
Janani Hariharakrishnan
+91 9790975556
In AppFlip, you’re not just redesigning apps-you’re reimagining how people experience them. With your design instincts, feature-spotting skills, and a spark of creativity, you’ll take well-known apps and “flip” them into something completely unexpected. From decoding mysterious prototypes to pitching fresh redesigns and battling it out in rapid-fire design duels, AppFlip is the ultimate test of creativity, quick thinking, and product vision. Can you transform Google Maps into a Mindfulness Journal? Or flip Spotify into a Pet Adoption Platform? That’s the challenge.
The event kicks off with a mystery. Teams are handed a strangely repurposed prototype of a well-known app. Your job: explore it, analyze the features, and deduce the original app behind the redesign. Top 5 teams are provided with a power card. There is no elimination in this round
Each team gets one famous app and a random concept, and must flip the app’s core features to create a new product idea. Top Teams from the prev round can use their power cards. Teams are also provided with Common Cards which offer perks to refine the design, while optional Risk Cards add high-reward twists. Teams will be scored on creativity, feasibility, user appeal, presentation clarity, and visual detailing. The top 8 teams move to the next round
Defend your app. Critique others'. Each team gets 5 minutes to pitch their redesign, followed by 3 minutes where opponents challenge flaws in usability, design, and feasibility. Judges consider both your defense and your ability to point out flaws in others. Top 4 teams move to the finale
The grand finale is a buzzer-based, rapid-fire round that tests design IQ and quick thinking. Teams face challenges like 2 Truths and a Lie about apps, old logo guesses, AI feature spotting, and tricky design trivia. Speed is key—first answers score high, but wrong ones mean negative points. In case of a tie, five extra questions decide the top three champions of AppFlip.
