&gt; I&#x27;d be surprised if he isn&#x27;t able to land internships with any of the big tech companies (Apple, Google, Facebook, etc.) with this piece as part of a larger portfolio.<p>Sure, but perhaps I&#x27;d be more surprised if that internship had to do with UX&#x2F;interaction design. Maybe marketing, or webdesign.<p>If I were to make a drawing of a house, even a detailed rendering, and made a website about why I would like such a house, why it would be a nice house, that wouldn&#x27;t make me an architect.<p>Your point about the larger portfolio is an important one. Where is it? At 21 he must have been studying this field for 2 maybe 3 years?<p>The site does look very neat and well-polished. That <i>is</i> impressive, no matter what. Clear indicator of talent. Whether that talent is <i>UX</i> design (people keep talking about &quot;design&quot; in this thread, as if it&#x27;s some general thing), he does not demonstrate: no tests, no design documents, no research. Except he does claim to have focused on research, yet no word about what this research entails, the process, how it went, what he found out.<p>So I&#x27;m going to say, he&#x27;s got great talent, for marketing shiny things to the general public. And if you think about it, it makes a lot more sense that someone great at marketing reaches the top of HN, than someone great at UX design? ;-)