Smarter practice, less prep
K-12 homework that adapts to each student
COMPANY
UniqLearn
ROLE
Lead UX/UI
EXPERTISE
UX/UI Design
YEAR
2021
Designing homework that teaches & motivates
I partnered with UniqLearn to shape a SaaS experience that generates individualized K-12 practice, gives instant, qualitative feedback, and surfaces teacher insights—without cumbersome diagnostics. The goal: raise engagement while giving teachers hours back each week.
Audience: District leaders, school admins, teachers; grades 3–12
My role: Lead UX across IA, flows, high-fidelity UI, design system, content strategy, QA-ready specs
Team: CEO/founder, Head of AI & Research, Head of Development (front/back end)
Timeline: 12 weeks (discovery/ideation 3, IA & flows 3, UI 4, validation & QA 2)
Scope: Student onboarding, assignment generation, instant feedback/resubmission loop, UniqTips for Teachers, admin dashboards, pricing & checkout, LMS/SSO touchpoints
Constraints: School Wi-Fi variability, SSO/rostering, low-friction setup, accessible data-dense views
Start with constraints, ship with clarity
I framed the experience around two levers—no-diagnostic personalization and an immediate feedback loop—optimized to reduce teacher effort and sustain student motivation.
Heuristic & analytics audit: Reviewed legacy flows for click-count, time-to-assign, and error hotspots; benchmarked against internal QA runs and product logs.
Journey mapping (systems-first): Teacher: roster → assign → review → reteach. Student: onboarding → interests → practice → retry.
Information architecture: Teacher home distilled into Today’s Classes, Needs Attention (UniqTips), and Outliers & Wins.
Key flows & wireframes:
Student: 60-second onboarding → personalized assignment → inline feedback → one-tap resubmit.
Teacher: “Create once” uses Learning Profiles to auto-suggest differentiation groups; optional LMS/SIS sync.
Validation & QA: Spec’d states, acceptance criteria, and event tracking (time-to-assign, resubmission rate, UniqTip actions). No external research—only internal QA and instrumentation.
Make it effortless to assign, obvious to act, and rewarding to retry
The shipped experience centers on fast setup, adaptive practice, and actionable guidance.
Zero-diagnostic onboarding: Student interests inform personalization—no separate placement test.
Learning Profiles: Behind the scenes ML builds profiles; UI surfaces ready-to-assign sets and pre-grouped differentiation.
Instant, qualitative feedback + resubmit: Students see where they went wrong and retry immediately; retries are tracked.
UniqTips for Teachers: Contextual side panel flags who needs attention and recommends next actions (reteach, regroup, assign follow-ups).
Dashboards for schools/districts: Roll-ups of usage, engagement, and performance with plain-language callouts.
Pricing & scale: Clear tiers for classrooms; a district path for SSO, custom rubrics, PD, and dedicated support.
Integrations: LMS/SIS/SSO entry points to reduce duplication.
Fewer clicks for teachers, more practice for students
Outcomes are measured via product analytics and internal QA benchmarks (no field interviews or user testing).
Teacher time reclaimed: −42% time-to-create first assignment (median 4:10 → 2:25) and −38% time-to-review when UniqTips were used.
Student engagement lift: +24% voluntary resubmissions within 24 hours; +18% higher assignment completion vs. baseline unit.
Actionable insight adoption: 62% of teachers triggered at least one UniqTip-recommended follow-up in week 2; 31% created a small group from Insights.
Time-to-value: Onboarding completion >90% under 90 seconds on mid-tier Chromebooks; SSO + LMS sync reduced roster setup to <5 minutes.
Commercial readiness: Pricing page clarity on student caps and a “Most Popular” tag increased plan-selection confirmations (tracked on CTA click + checkout start).