Improving learning outcomes for students through personalized tutoring at PLUS
Timeline
4 months, January - May 2022
Role
UX Designer (Contract)
Team
1 Product Manager, 2 UX Designers, 2 Engineers
Tools
Figma, Miro, Trello, Google Suite, Pen & Paper
What is Personalized Learning?
PLUS is a collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Urban Education (CUE) and Carnegie Mellon University’s LearnLab. By pairing the power of human tutors with artificial intelligence, PL² targets opportunity gaps for K-12 students of color and other marginalized groups, piloting innovative approaches to personalized learning.
Project Brief
Redesign and mockup the existing web and mobile interfaces for the PLUS app and static website to 1) elevate the user experience for students and tutors and 2) for parity to facilitate the work of future designers and developers.
Work cross-functionally to identify and improve usability issues and UI components.
Design System
I helped create a new design system to create cohesion and consistency between the PLUS app and the website.
PLUS App (Web & Mobile)
Wireframes to Mockups
For the app I re-designed the dashboard and lesson pages. I created wireframes first to decide on the main components of the dashboard screens. After discussing them with the rest of the team I mocked up high visual fidelity screens using the design system.
High-Fidelity Mockups
I was tasked with leading the Figma mockup creation of all the PLUS app screens (web & mobile interfaces). After the dashboard screens were mocked up, I created a high-fidelity prototype of the PLUS app.
PLUS Website (Web & Mobile)
High-Fidelity Mockups
The next task was to create mockups for the website pages; this included designing certain pages from scratch and redesigning others.