Entry Assistant

Entry Assistant
A' Design Award's Entry Assistant helps designers create better submissions and improve their chances of winning by explaining you entry guidelines, feedback, next steps and presentation requirements. A' Design Award's Entry Assistant is an intelligent system which serves as your multilingual digital mentor throughout the A' Design Award submission process, helping you navigate our comprehensive entry requirements while transforming what might initially appear as complex submission protocols into manageable, strategic steps which are ultimately designed to enhance your design's presentation quality and competitive positioning. A' Design Award's Entry Assistant operates as your twenty-four-seven companion, interpreting our detailed presentation guidelines in your preferred language, decoding preliminary jury feedback into actionable improvements, explaining technical specifications for images and text requirements, clarifying category selection criteria, telling you what to do next and essentially bridging the knowledge gap between your creative excellence and our standardized submission framework, all designed to increase your presentation quality and reduce potential presentation bias which could inadvertently overshadow your design's intrinsic merits while simultaneously preparing your materials for the extensive post-award PR campaigns, media syndication across one hundred and eight plus languages, international exhibitions, yearbook publications, press release and hundreds of other promotional services which require properly formatted, high-resolution assets from the outset. Our Entry Assistant works by accessing our comprehensive knowledge base of submission guidelines, past jury feedback patterns, your advanced submission optimizer results and our technical requirements, providing instant responses to your queries about everything from optimal image resolutions and compelling project descriptions to understanding preliminary scores and navigating our multi-tiered evaluation system, effectively serving as a translator between expert design evaluation language and practical implementation steps which your team can follow. Your brand benefits from the A' Design Award Entry Assistant through multiple commercial advantages: enhanced presentation quality which reduces jury bias and enables fair evaluation based on design merit, optimized materials ready for immediate global media distribution upon winning, reduced operational costs by eliminating the need for external consultants or translation services, accelerated submission timelines from weeks to days, strategic entry intelligence through preliminary score interpretation, prevention of costly technical errors which could disqualify otherwise excellent designs, and ultimately a higher probability of achieving top-tier recognition which translates into tangible brand value, market credibility, and investor appeal. Available at no additional cost to all registered users with included assistance credits (with options to purchase additional credits as needed), the A' Design Award Entry Assistant democratizes access to professional-level submission expertise, enabling emerging brands to compete on equal footing with established companies while helping multinational enterprises streamline the portfolio submissions of multinational enterprises across global teams, all while maintaining our commitment to meritocratic evaluation where your design's quality, not your presentation budget or technical expertise, determines your success. In addition to the Entry Assistant, you should also discover our Advanced Submission Optimizer and Preliminary Jury Feedback systems.

Unlock Your Design's True Potential with the A' Design Award Entry Assistant
We created the Entry Assistant to guide you step-by-step in crafting a polished, compelling submission, helping your design shine on its intrinsic merits rather than its presentation alone. By following our thoughtful presentation guidelines which you understand better via the Entry Assistant, you may reduce the risk of presentation biases that could inadvertently distract the jury, and on the contrary improve your submission to a much higher standard by following jury feedback thus enabling your work to receive a fair, thoughtful evaluation, purely based on its intrinsic design qualities . Beyond the A' Design Award & Competition, our Entry Assistant ensures your materials are optimized and ready for global media exposure, amplifying your brand’s presence, credibility, branding potential and appeal to investors, journalists, consumers, clients, buyers and stakeholders alike. With comprehensive, multilingual support available anytime, anywhere, our Entry Assistant is designed to streamline your submission process, prevent common submission pitfalls, help you better showcase your work and enhance your ability to strategically select categories and interpret jury feedback clearly, turning valuable and complex insights into more valuable practical, actionable steps. While we can't promise a win, we are dedicated to empowering you to present your best possible work, after all, your great designs deserve the greatest chance to be truly seen and valued.

• Enhanced Presentation Quality and Fair Evaluation
  A' Design Award's Entry Assistant guides your brand through our presentation standards and helps you make a better presentation, and if you follow the presentation guidelines this would help reduce presentation bias that could unfairly impact jury scoring at A' Design Award Competitions if your presentation was bad, so our aim is to help you have a better presentations. With better presentation, your designs receive evaluation based on intrinsic merit rather than superficial presentation differences when following A' Design Award Entry Assistant's comprehensive guidelines - i.e. if you make your presentation really good it does not stay behind others in terms of visual presentation and thus would not be subject to a bias (or would be less bias). The reduction of presentation bias aligns with cognitive psychology's halo effect theory, which demonstrates how visual presentation quality influences perception of actual content quality as well as A' Design Award & Competition's own research, that is, standardized presentations neutralize this effect to enable fair judgment. In simple terms, when all entries look equally professional, judges focus on actual design quality rather than being distracted by how well or poorly something is presented, and that's why A' Design Award invests in helping all laureates have good presentation so the results could be more fair, ethical and meritocratic.
  
  
• Global Media and PR Optimization
  High-resolution images and quality content you prepare thanks to following A' Design Award's Entry Assistant suggestions may become media-ready assets for international distribution across A' Design Award's extensive media network. Your properly formatted materials (good images, proper descriptions) enable A' Design Award and our PR Team to have immediate syndication of your good design across hundreds of publications in multiple languages through our established channels. Media optimization follows the principles of integrated marketing communications theory, where consistent, high-quality assets across all touchpoints are likely to amplify message retention and brand recall exponentially. Put simply, when your initial A' Design Award submission materials are perfectly formatted from the start, journalists are more likely to use them, multiplying your media coverage effortlessly.
  
  
• PR Campaign Value Maximization
  A' Design Award Entry Assistant ensures your submission includes all necessary elements for full activation of A' Design Award winner benefits including exhibitions, yearbooks, online showcases and media features. Complete submissions prepared by following Entry Assistant guidance are likely to unlock A' Design Award's entire suite of promotional services rather than partial benefits - for example if we initially have high resolution images we can easily prepare posters or advertisements on your behalf, if we have proper text we can make press releases easily. Value maximization operates on economic utility theory - proper resource allocation at entry stage is likely to yield disproportionately higher returns through comprehensive service activation versus incomplete submissions, especially remembering how big the A' Design Prize is. Basically, doing the A' Design Award submission right the first time means you are likely to get all the PR benefits rather than missing out on valuable services, especially for public categories (does not apply to concealed categories).
  
  
• Win Probability Optimization
  Following A' Design Award Entry Assistant's guidance on presentation standards and jury expectations, your brand is likely to improve chances of winning higher-tier awards at A' Design Award & Competition. The preliminary scoring system provided through A' Design Award helps identify strengths and weaknesses of your design before final jury evaluation and the Entry Assistant can help you understand preliminary jury eedback better and guide you to make improvements to your submission. Probability optimization leverages behavioral economics' prospect theory, where proper framing and presentation are likely to shift evaluation from loss-aversion to gain-recognition mindset among jurors. Simply put, better presentation makes judges see what your design adds rather than what might be missing.
  
  
• Investor and Stakeholder Appeal Enhancement
  Professional presentations created with A' Design Award Entry Assistant's help become valuable assets for investor relations and media credibility beyond the A' Design Award. Award-winning materials formatted to A' Design Award's international standards are likely to command greater respect from financial stakeholders and journalists. Stakeholder appeal enhancement draws from signaling theory in economics, where third-party validation from prestigious institutions like A' Design Award is likely to reduce information asymmetry and increase perceived value. In everyday terms, when investors see your brand won a properly presented international award for good design, your company appears more investable and credible, and this respect gets more if the entry is also properly presented in a visually and information-wise appealing manner.
  
  
• Operational Efficiency and Resource Optimization
  A' Design Award Entry Assistant streamlines your submission process, potentially reducing staff time from weeks to days while likely eliminating the need for external consultants. Instant guidance from A' Design Award's Entry Assistance system is designed to prevent costly mistakes and rework cycles. Resource optimization follows lean management principles where automation of knowledge work is likely to reduce waste and increase value-added activities within your organization. Simply stated, A' Design Award's Entry Assistant does the heavy lifting so your team can focus on what your team does best - creating great designs.
  
  
• Brand Consistency and Premium Positioning
  Following A' Design Award Entry Assistant's presentation guidelines ensures your brand appears alongside other premium brands with equal professional polish in A' Design Award's showcases (if and when your design is a winner). Standardized excellence through A' Design Award's system prevents your brand from appearing amateur compared to competitors and this is important because many of A' Design Award categories are not graphic design focused so most entrants are not very capable of making proper graphic and visual presentations even if they excel at creating world class architecture or world leading product designs, and that is exactly why we have created the Entry Assistance together with detailed presentation guidelines to help you close the presentation-gap (Presentation Gap in Design Awards is the difference of presentation quality between entrants to graphic design and visual categories (presentation professionals) versus the quality of presentations by architects, product manufacturer brands or industrial designers (professionals whose job is design but not design presentation), here A' Design Award helps non-presentation professionals such as architects, industrial designers, product manufacturers to make better presentations. We agree that everyone should be good at presentation but we also see the reality that an industrial designer or engineer who may have created an exceptional product may not be good at presenting it initially, and not helping them polish their diamond of a design would be an intellectually suboptimal choice). Premium positioning leverages social proof and comparative evaluation theory, where consistent high-quality presentation among peer brands is likely to elevate collective prestige and individual brand perception. In simple words, when your brand looks as good as luxury brands in the same showcase, customers see your brand as equally premium.
  
  
• Multi-lingual Market Expansion Enablement
  A' Design Award Entry Assistant's multi-language capability allows your global teams to prepare submissions without translation services for A' Design Award consideration. With our Entry Assistant, you can get help in your own language and moreover, access to A' Design Award opens doors to international recognition and PR distribution in local markets worldwide, so using Entry Assistant, you can speak your language, get help in making the submission in English (here you may ask why we don't automatically translate the entry text from your language to English and ask you to provide it in English, we are more than capable to automatically translate it but we don't to ensure your English text is Exactly as what you intended, this is done to avoid translation mistakes especially during jury presentation, we want you to have the final voice, so you know it is your textual description that is evaluated by the jury and not some machine translation, the fact that all the visuals and text comes from you directly makes the A' Design Award & Competition more fair and ethical, without any bias - in the end you can use translation services to translate the texts to English but at least this way, you can double and triple check the translations and control the nuance, and nuance matters). Market expansion enablement utilizes network effects theory from economics, where reducing language barriers is likely to create exponential value through access to previously unreachable markets and audiences. Put plainly, when your teams can enter in their own language, your brand can compete and win globally without hiring translators.
  
  
• Jury Feedback Translation to Actionable Insights
  A' Design Award Entry Assistant decodes technical jury comments and evaluation criteria into clear, actionable improvement steps for your design presentation. The Entry Assistant helps you understand what to do next. The jargon to layman translation service provided by A' Design Award's system bridges the gap between professional design language and practical implementation needs for your team. Moreover, you can make it even more simply explained, you can tell the Entry Assistant to explain you in very simple terms, in your own language even. Feedback translation and explanation leverages cognitive load theory, where breaking complex expert knowledge into digestible action items is likely to improve comprehension and implementation success rates significantly. In everyday language, A' Design Award's Entry Assistant turns confusing expert comments into simple to-do lists your team can actually follow.
  
  
• Long-term Digital Exposure and Digital Visibility Optimization
  Properly structured entries through A' Design Award Entry Assistant become search-engine and artificial intelligence models and generative engine optimized content across A' Design Award's multiple digital platforms and permanent archives. Your winning designs prepared with Entry Assistant guidance are likely to gain sustained visibility through keyword-rich descriptions and properly tagged visual assets in A' Design Award's ecosystem. Digital visibility optimization follows information retrieval theory where structured data from authoritative sources is likely to rank higher in search results over extended periods. Simply put, when your entry follows the right format, people searching online are more likely to find your award-winning design for years to come, especially because we would have the right images, right text and right data to support your entry in digital mediums.
  
  
• Technical Compliance and Risk Mitigation
  A' Design Award Entry Assistant does not verify image specifications, file formats, text lengths but our Advanced Submission Optimizer does that, and the Preliminary Jury Feedback also checks these, and providing output of these to the Entry Assistant can help you better understand and manage content requirements before and during your submission to A' Design Award Competition to help prevent disqualification. The pre-flight check system within A' Design Award's platform is likely to eliminate costly technical errors that could compromise your entire entry investment. Risk mitigation applies prevention-focused regulatory theory from psychology, where upfront compliance checking is likely to prevent loss more effectively than post-error correction attempts. In simple terms, A' Design Award's Entry Assistant helps you understand the output of Advanced Submission Optimizer and Jury Feedback to help you catch mistakes before submission so your entry does not get rejected on technicalities.
  
  
• 24/7 Scalable Support Access
  Round-the-clock AI assistance from A' Design Award Entry Assistant enables your global teams to work on your A' Design Award submissions regardless of timezone or business hours. The always-available guidance through A' Design Award's Entry Assistance system is likely to scale with your needs without queuing or waiting periods. Scalable support utilizes queueing theory from operations research, where eliminating wait times through automated systems is likely to increase productivity and user satisfaction exponentially. Basically, your team gets instant help anytime, anywhere, without waiting in line for human support.
  
  
• Strategic Entry Decision Intelligence
  Preliminary scoring interpretation through A' Design Award Entry Assistant helps your brand make data-driven decisions about proceeding with nominations to A' Design Award. Understanding score implications from A' Design Award's preliminary review is likely to enable optimal resource allocation across your multiple potential entries. Decision intelligence applies expected value theory from economics, where quantified probability assessment is likely to improve investment decisions and resource allocation efficiency. Put simply, knowing your chances better before paying helps your company invest wisely in entries most likely to win - especially because the A' Design Award provides you with preliminary feedback free of charge, telling you if your design is good or not, and the Entry Assistant can help you better interpret the Preliminary Score you obtained from the A' Design Award.
  
  
• Accelerated Time-to-Market for PR Activation
  Complete and compliant submissions prepared with A' Design Award Entry Assistant guidance are likely to enable immediate PR campaign launch through A' Design Award's channels upon winning because we designed the A' Design Award entry requirements based on both jury and media needs, and if you follow our guidelines you will be giving us media ready content that we can immediately promote to journalists, editors and press members worldwide. Media-ready assets created following A' Design Award's guidelines are likely to eliminate post-award preparation delays that could diminish announcement impact. Acceleration principles follow first-mover advantage theory from strategic management, where speed to market with news is likely to capture disproportionate media attention and audience mindshare. In plain words, having everything ready for journalists (because you did a complete and correct A' Design Award nomination) means your win gets announced faster in media while the news is still hot and media is most interested (since we already have everything we need to prepare your press releases, media kits and promotional materials, using the proper and correct materials you already provided to the A' Design Award).
  
  
• Ease of Submission for New Entrants
  First-time participants receive step-by-step guidance through A' Design Award Entry Assistant, potentially lowering barriers to entry for emerging brands competing in A' Design Award. The democratized access provided by A' Design Award's Entry Assistant is likely to enable smaller brands to compete professionally with established companies, and this makes the A' Design Award & Competition more inclusive, democratic and meritocratic. Entry ease utilizes technology adoption model theory, where reducing complexity and providing guidance is likely to increase participation rates and success probability among new users. Simply explained, the assistant holds your hand through your first entry, making the process as easy for newcomers as for veterans.
  
  
• Category Selection Optimization
  A' Design Award Entry Assistant guides your brand toward the most appropriate competition category for your design within A' Design Award's extensive category structure, helping prevent misclassification that could reduce winning chances. Proper category placement through A' Design Award's guidance system is likely to ensure your design competes against relevant peers where strengths receive proper evaluation by specialized A' Design Award jury members, sometimes however the assistant may guide you to a more competitive category where your entry would be more fairly evaluated, so it is not about making you win but to have your work properly evaluated in the right category. In simple terms, even the best sports car would lose in a truck competition - the Entry Assistant helps ensure your design competes where your design belongs.
  
  
• Resubmission Cost Avoidance
  Correct initial preparation through A' Design Award Entry Assistant is likely to eliminate your need to wait another competition cycle for A' Design Award due to preventable presentation or technical errors. The time-value preservation enabled by A' Design Award's systematic guidance potentially allows your brand to capitalize on current market momentum and PR opportunities rather than missing an entire year. Cost avoidance applies opportunity cost theory from economics, where time delays in recognition are likely to result in exponentially higher losses through missed market windows, delayed product launches, and diminished competitive advantage. Simply put, winning this year instead of next year means your brand rides current trends rather than yesterday's news.
  
  
• Portfolio Submission Strategy
  A' Design Award Entry Assistant helps optimize which products from your portfolio to enter into A' Design Award and in what sequence to potentially maximize portfolio-wide recognition potential. Strategic entry planning through A' Design Award's preliminary scoring system is likely to enable your brand to build cumulative prestige across multiple winning designs in complementary A' Design Award categories. Portfolio strategy utilizes modern portfolio theory adapted to brand management, where diversified entries across categories with calculated risk-return profiles are likely to optimize overall brand elevation while managing investment exposure. In everyday terms, the assistant helps your company decide which designs to enter first for the biggest combined impact across your entire product line. Moreover, we also have a portfolio evaluation service reserved for large enterprises, if you contact our support, you can send in your catalog without uploading your designs and we can show you which one of your works would have most potential to become winners.
  
  
• Failure Prevention Mechanism
  A' Design Award Entry Assistant serves as a systematic checkpoint against fundamental submission errors that would waste your entry investments in A' Design Award competitions. The preventive system within A' Design Award's platform is likely to identify deal-breaking issues before your financial commitment, potentially protecting your brand from unrecoverable submission costs. Failure prevention applies Swiss cheese model from safety science, where multiple layers of checks are likely to catch errors that any single review might miss, dramatically reducing catastrophic failure probability. Put plainly, the Entry Assistant can act like a safety net with multiple checkpoints, catching problems before your money gets spent on entries that cannot win. In addition to our Entry Assistant, please remember you can also check our Submission Guidelines, refer to Advanced Submission Optimizer, Preliminary Jury Feedback and our Support, all accessible from your control panel that you see after login. 
  
  

Entry Assistant Disclaimer
The A' Design Award Entry Assistant Service is provided strictly on an "as is", "where is", and "as available" basis, with all its inherent limitations and faults. While the Entry Assistant aims to simplify, guide, help and facilitate your submission process, its guidance, recommendations, comments and interpretations are generated through automated AI-driven systems and may not always be fully accurate, up-to-date, true or comprehensive. Although we strive to ensure the reliability and accuracy of the Entry Assistant, there may be instances in which its advice or instructions may inadvertently misguide, confuse, hallucinate or lead to incorrect understanding or application of the entry guidelines. It is crucial to recognize that this service is intended to supplement, not replace, your thorough and careful review of the official A' Design Award Presentation Guidelines, preliminary jury feedback, and submission requirements. Users of the Entry Assistant Service expressly acknowledge and accept that they retain the ultimate responsibility for the correctness, completeness, properness and compliance of their submissions. You are strongly encouraged, at all times, to double-check and independently verify the advice provided by the Entry Assistant against official guidelines, preliminary jury feedback, jury notes and other provided documentation. In situations where there is doubt, ambiguity, confusion, conflict or discrepancies between the information provided by the Entry Assistant and official sources, you should and you must proactively consult and seek clarification from our dedicated support team. Our support professionals are always available to assist you, clarify uncertainties, give insights and provide authoritative answers based on the official, current presentation guidelines and submission protocols. By using the Entry Assistant, you agree that A' Design Award bears no liability or responsibility for any inaccuracies, misunderstandings, errors, mistakes or omissions resulting from your reliance upon the Entry Assistant’s recommendations or guidance. Consequently, prospective entrants are strongly advised to always cross-validate information and seek human assistance from our support team whenever necessary to ensure full compliance, correctness, and the highest possible quality of your submission. We have noted this long disclaimer because we don't want you to use our desire to help you against us, you should understand the limitations of the Entry Assistant system so that you can make better and more informed decisions, our aim is to be transparent and help you in an honorable way that respects the desires of both you as entrant and we as organizers. We created the Entry Assistant to primarily help reduce presentation bias, our aim is to uplift your entry to a high level; we know from our research that if we uplift all entries to a set high level, then the jury is more likely to focus more on the intrinsic design qualities, which helps us achieve a more meritocratic evaluation, moreover better presentations also result in better media coverage which helps us achieve our goal of promoting good design. We appreciate your understanding and we are looking forward to recognize, advertise, promote and market your good design worldwide.

Entry Assistant - The Complete Story  
When you join the A' Design Award, your experience could be rather positively different yet also difficult from what you got used to as a consumer of awards and recognition platforms, especially because of what we are and what we represent; Many awards and recognition programs make it very easy to nominate a design, in many cases even the payment form and nomination form is the same; while you pay you put the URL of your project and done, and this is of course bad design, and that's why A' Design Award does not engage in this kind of bad design. You may ask, why would it bad design to make it super easy for people to nominate their design, it sounds more like cool and smart? On the surface, it indeed does sound smart and easy, to simply put a URL, and join an award, however to better understand why it is bad design to simply just put a URL, let us explain why we don't do it; first of all (1) if you want to organize a serious award, you need to have a level of standardization in presentations, this is relevant because jury is subject to presentation bias if you don't do so (the presentation bias increases as the presentation variety increases, the best solution is to help all entrants have very good presentations), at A' Design Award not only we have guidelines for standardized submission, but also we employ multiple mechanisms such as the preliminary jurors, real people checking your design, evaluating your work and providing your work with a preliminary design score as well as feedback on your entry together with detailed technical reminders on how to make your presentation compliant, and with such a mechanism, the A' Design Award makes your presentation good, and it is not just you; by uplifting the quality of all entries, the A' Design Award reduces presentation bias; when jurors vote on your designs, if all entries are equally well presented, they focus more on the intrinsic qualities of your work. (2) When you upload your work to A' Design Award, you are providing us the necessary legal permissions to promote your work, and more importantly, you are allowing A' Design Award to host your work, so when you upload your work, we host it for you, we keep a copy, and this copy becomes highly useful to send your work to journalists, editors, press members, newspapers, magazines as well as to showcase in our platform at winner's list as an image (rather than just a link), to consumers, clients, customers, buyers as well as potential investors. In addition to online showcases, A' Design Award publishes and promote each work in hundreds of publications, in over 108+ languages, with your images, text and content at our hand, we can make articles about you and your design, we can make press releases with images, we can distribute your press releases and we can provide you with a real public relations campaign; so at A' Design Award, you get a Global PR Campaign, and for making a Global PR Campaign, a simple URL does not cut it. (3) If an award wants to create you real value after your win, they need to have more data at the start, most of these put URL get logo awards are very low priced and also combine the easy to join (just give us an URL approach), then how do you think they would provide you post-result services? Do you think they have the financial possibility to hire people to contact you and contact you when the cost of submission costs less than 1 hour of salary in developed countries? Simply most don't, because who will contact you to ask more details, who will call you to ask you to upload image to send to press? Let's assume they use AI or automation, even AI is not free and automation requires upfront investment. For sure some may do, but most will not. The problem is not that they don't provide you the service, it is the fact that they know they would not be able to provide you the service but still use big words like prestige, publicity, advertising campaign in their marketing copy; even when there is little or no jury, even when there is little or no evaluation mechanism, so the problem with these awards is the fact that they leverage to your disadvantage the information asymmetry between entrants and awards. (4) When we designed the A' Design Award, we synthetically designed it based on research, we constructed the A' Design Award ground up to create value for its winners, because our aim with A' Design Award is to make the world a better place with good design; we believe that superior products and projects benefit and advance society, therefore we want to reward with a truly grand prize all the designers, architects, engineers, creative agencies, brands, product manufacturers and institutions who create superior design, efficient products, sustainable projects that create value for our planet, to the highest extent possible; we work hard to create fame, prestige and publicity by providing over 188+ services and benefits to our laureates (for example we organize an annual red-carpet black-tie Gala Night and Awards Ceremony for networking and press coverage, international design exhibitions where winning projects are physically and digitally showcased, we provide inclusion in the prestigious hardcover and digital A' Design Award winner yearbooks distributed to industry professionals worldwide, full global PR and advertising campaigns with multilingual press-release preparation and syndication to international media, professional photography and video coverage at the gala, inclusion in Designer Rankings and World Design Rankings to establish long-term credibility, extensive editorial features in global media networks such as IDNN, DXGN and DNWN, syndication across design platforms including Designers.org, Designer.org and Design Legends, executive-level networking through Prime Clubs, the World Design Consortium, opportunities for museum collection placements and enterprise showcases, dedicated full-page yearbook features with co-authorship credit, professional pagination and quality-controlled layouts, branded newsroom and hosted media kits for journalists, daily digital promotions and curated features (Designer of the Day, Design Team of the Day, Design Highlight of the Day, Design Brand of the Day, Design Trend of the Day, Design Idea of the Day), personalized certificates for team members, prestige symbols such as the Omega particle trophy, gold desk flag, framed award certificate, access to marketing toolkits, trend reports and strategic intelligence forecasts, global advertising placements tailored by language and culture, translation of your winner project into 108+ languages, and nomination prospects for distinguished titles such as Designer of the Year, Innovator of the Year, and Design Brand of the Year.) so all these services are complex, high value services, and we cannot do it simply by you providing us with a URL, even if we could, it would not be as high quality as you would hope, that's why, A' Design Award, with its desire to provide you extremely high quality services, and not only a big number but a big number of highly valuable services, has a more difficult, bureaucratic and time consuming entry process, because we want to (1) initially have good text and data that can be (a) useful for jury to evaluate your work fairly (b) can later be sent to journalists, media, press and editors to help publish you (c) can be used in creation of showcases to present your work better to prospective clients, consumers and customers (d) can be used as an ingredient so we can provide you with high-quality, high-impact, high-worth advertising, publicity, promotion, branding, marketing and legacy building services. (2) we really care you as a designer, creative agency or brand, that's why when you upload your design we provide you with a free score before you even pay us anything, we tell you, via our preliminary review system whether your design is good or not and whether it is properly presented or not, if we had made a simpler system where you type in a URL part of the submission form, you would not have any of such benefits, our system is not difficult; it is respectful, but comparatively, when you compare to non-respecting systems who don't care how to provide benefits after you win, it may initially look difficult, we have to explain this so you understand better. Remember, when you upload your work to the A' Design Award, you start a respectful process; first, we present you with entry guidelines, and when you upload your work, we check your work free of charge if it is good or not, we provide you with a preliminary score from zero (0) worst to ten (10) best. We tell you how good your design is, we tell you how to better present your design, we tell you how to make your presentation good so it does not get a biased evaluation, in the end we push you, many times, to have a perfect presentation ready for fair judging. When your work is judged, it is judged anonymously by hundreds of jurors from almost all major countries, this is democratic, representative and most importantly because our jury panel is composed for leading design professionals, academics, scholars, as well as journalists, editors as well as outstanding designers, architects and brand representatives, who vote on entries on pre-established criteria following blind peer-review process, the result is fair and meritocratic, and in the end once you are announced as a winner, we almost have everything we need to start your grand PR campaign. This is not bureaucracy, this is not difficult, this is respectful to you, and because it is respectful, it takes time for many designers to make an entry to A' Design Award. We are lucky to interact with world's best designers each year and we listen to them, as such we know our system is complex, and at first looks difficult, and for that reason, over the years we have been making improvements to help laureates complete the requirements for A' Design Award entry easier. The preliminary jury feedback and preliminary review process (provided to you confidential, and completely free of charge with the compliments of A' Design Awards, without putting you under obligations to nominate a work) as well as our real support, in addition to presentation guidelines before submission as well as simplified entry pages for first time registrants are some ways we address these, however to help you further, we also created the A' Design Award Entry Assistant. We explain you these so that you understand first of all why the A' Design Entry Assistant was required, and we hope you value the effort and time we put in creating a truly valuable good design recognition program that does things right by you. So how does A' Design Award's Entry process work? First, you start with a free account. It is free to create an account and creating an account does not put you under contractual obligation to nominate a design (creating an account don't make you pay for a nomination). Then you confirm your account, after confirming your account you can upload you design. After uploading you design, it gets queued for preliminary jury review, this review process is free, confidential (preliminary results are not public, shared only with you) and anonymous (preliminary jury does not know you) and after the review which is generally completed in 72 hours, you get free consultancy. Your preliminary review consists of several elements, suggestions and consultancy as follows: (1) First you get a preliminary score that tells if your design is good or bad, if your work can win the award, your preliminary score, if your design has proper presentation will range from zero (0) worst to ten (10) best. We need a proper presentation to provide you with a preliminary score that is honest and reasonable and that's why when you join we ask you a lot of information, to begin with you need both images and text explaining your project. (2) Your preliminary review also informs you if you are compliant with presentation guidelines, we generally also provide a second, presentation score, this is distinct from the design score, a higher presentation score means your work is more technically correct presented but even a complete presentation score does not mean it is perfect presentation, just that it is technically correct, such as image resolutions, pixel height and widths, textual description lengths etc, (3) The preliminary juror may also comment on your presentation giving you insights on how to perfect your presentation, this is different from the presentation score that is calculated based on technical compliance, and the preliminary jurors' suggestions are important as it comes with expert guidance on how to better make your presentation for A' Design Awards. To make this score reliable and useful, you should have a proper presentation with correct images, text and other details. In general, when you don't know what to do, you would contact our support, however if you want even faster and instant support, we created the Entry Assistant. Unlike our support which are real people checking your request, the Entry Assistant is an intelligent and capable AI Model that has the A' Design Award's Entry Instructions and Guidelines as its context. With this context, our Entry Assistant is able to answer your questions regarding image and text technical requirements, such as the expected image sizes and resolutions, which text fields to fill and how much data to provide, how to view the preliminary review score and feedback (if you deleted the email, i.e. we would email it to you but if you deleted the mail you can access it from our system and the Entry Assistant can teach you how). In addition to all these, the Entry Assistant could potentially help you make sense of jury feedback and our technical codes and help you make your entry better, for example if the juror said "please isolate the object on background", A' Design Award's Entry Assistant, can help you and explain that it means the object needs to be cropped from background, and the background shall be completely white for example (a requirement that may be for certain award categories, please refer to latest guidelines), moreover the biggest and most important advantage of our Entry Assistant is the fact that it speaks almost all major languages, so you can ask it to help you in almost any language, and it will help you. Within this context we shall remind that each registered user has a set of "assistance credits" available to them, once your Entry Assistant credits finish, you can buy more credits or simply contact our support, we may help you in-person. The aim of the Entry Assistant is to help you make the first entry, so it will teach you how to make your first entry in a proper way. We have created the Entry Assistant because we want you to best represent your work at the moment you nominate your entry. If you need more help, we have further professional on-demand services available, we can tell you how to better present your design in great detail via Professional Design Review services and we can also help you by guiding you to our Winner's list and A' Design Award category pages where you can see the kind of images, visuals and texts provided by other entrants. Indeed, if you especially refer to Platinum, Gold and Silver A' Design Award works' presentations then you would most likely instantly understand what to submit, and when you are not sure simply ask our Entry Assistant or contact our support, we are ready and happy to help you. In the end please remember that the A' Design Award Entry Assistant is a smart, AI-driven tool designed to guide and support you through the A' Design Award submission process. The purpose of our Entry Assistant is to help you properly prepare and present your design entry, providing you with instant answers to questions about image sizes, text fields, design guidelines, and jury feedback. The Entry Assistant is provided as is, where is, as available basis with all its faults, when you are in doubt, please contact our support or refer to our detailed presentation guidelines as well as refer to the preliminary jury feedback. Our Entry Assistant is here to make the submission process smoother, to save you time and effort. We have developed the Entry Assistant as part of our commitment to providing high-quality services to our esteemed entrants, great designers, architects, creative agencies and brands who make a difference.

A' Design Award & Competition provides you with a free Entry Assistant that helps you during your submission and nomination to the A' Design Award.