User Experience Design

Design a new app that is backed by research and solves a specific problem.

Illuminate is a fictional app designed to help elementary school teachers give parents and students easy access to resources in various subjects. Teachers generally don’t feel supported by parents when students struggle with subjects at home. Illuminate allows parents to help their children succeed in traditional subjects outside the academic setting.

The design caters to elementary school students from kindergarten to fourth grade.

The concept for Illuminate originally came from my mother’s experiences as an elementary school teacher for nearly twenty-five years. I watched my mother work hard and make attempts to go the extra mile for each of her students. When doing this, however, she ended up missing out on family activities. My mother is a hard worker and an inspiration for me. Growing up as a teacher’s kid, I watched other teachers do the same thing, staying late into the evening and working for their students to have the best experience in the classroom. I consistently heard of struggling students who needed more support and watched teachers dig through filing cabinets of physical resources they would send home with them each night. To make things easier for these hard-working teachers, I wanted to make a digital library where students can learn outside the academic setting with resources from their teachers, parents can receive updates on their student’s progress, and parents can save resources their children love. With Illuminate, teachers feel supported, parents can be up-to-date and active in their child’s academic performance, and students can succeed in their general education subjects.