YouDesignFuture — University Choice and Career Guidance Platform for Students

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During university preference season, a student tries to see where their score can take them among thousands of programs. The guides are long and the information is scattered. Admission requirements, costs and career questions are each looked up in different places.

YouDesignFuture is a guidance platform that brings this scattered picture into one place, built on a "clean data + AI + human expert" principle. We did its product design and development. The platform is live and, in its first phase, serves Turkey and Central Asia.

At its heart is the YKS Preference Robot. It draws on the roughly 21,000 associate and undergraduate programs in ÖSYM's 2025 preference guide. Once a student enters their score type and success rank, the programs they can get into are listed right away in "Safe / Reasonable / Risky" colour bands. Results can be narrowed by city, university, department, language and scholarship; a drag-and-drop list of up to 30 preferences can be built and exported as PDF or Excel.

On top of this runs Edu GPT, an AI advisor. Its answers stream in real time. The advisor is grounded in real data so that it does not invent numbers or links. University matching follows the same split: the match score is computed deterministically in code, and the AI explains the reasoning. Eligibility, personal-career and total annual-cost reports complete the set.

The platform also includes a YÖS/SAT/TOEFL exam-prep module, more than 230 detailed university profiles and a Telegram bot. Its role structure covers student, parent, instructor, university editor (B2B), moderator and admin. The interface works in five languages (TR/EN/RU/AR/UZ), with Arabic shown right to left. It is built on PHP 8.2 and MariaDB. Authentication runs through a single sign-on (SSO) provider, payments through iyzico, and bot protection through Cloudflare Turnstile.