ILearn Self-Paced Learning App

The ILearn app’s course screen, Networks Illustrated, on a tablet

Challenge

Startup ILearn imagined an employee training app where learners engage through their preferred learning style, take notes and track progress with topic visualizations and quizzes.

They engaged our team to design the full learning experience as a tablet app.

Senior Designer · The full tablet app


Core Experience

The core experience of the application involves three flexible modules. Learners choose their preferred module to read articles, watch videos and jot down notes as they progress through the topic material and quizzes.

Landscape
Portrait
  • Screen and tabs
  • One window
  • Two windows
  • Three windows
The core learning screens: no windows open
1 of 6No windows open
The core learning screens: article
2 of 6Article
The core learning screens: article and video
3 of 6Article and Video
The core learning screens: article, video and notes
4 of 6Article, Video and Notes
The core learning screens: drawing on grid paper
5 of 6Drawing on grid paper
The core learning screens: video playing, with notes
6 of 6Video playing, with notes

Learners can focus on one or two formats at a time, or open the Article, Video and Notes modules together, in either tablet orientation.

  • Complete
  • You are here
  • To come
  • Added review
  • Start, read clockwise

One spoke = one topic · one filled ring = ten minutes · groups of spokes = units

The radial visualization represents how a course’s length and progress change depending on quiz performance.


The all courses screen: all courses
1 of 6All courses
The all courses screen: another course in front
2 of 6Another course in front
The all courses screen: add more courses
3 of 6Add more courses
The all courses screen: as a list
4 of 6As a list
The all courses screen: a course is added
5 of 6A course is added
The all courses screen: every course added
6 of 6Every course added

All Courses

To switch courses, learners scan a library of their courses, each with its own progress.

The unit progress screens: unit 1, complete
1 of 6Unit 1, complete
The unit progress screens: unit 2, in progress
2 of 6Unit 2, in progress
The unit progress screens: unit 3, not started
3 of 6Unit 3, not started
The unit progress screens: unit 4, not started
4 of 6Unit 4, not started
The unit progress screens: the whole course
5 of 6The whole course
The unit progress screens: a review is added after a quiz
6 of 6A review is added after a quiz

Unit Progress

In addition to the core experience, a carousel of unit cards orients learners within the course structure.

Each carousel card displays a unit, with new topics flowing into the card as learners complete the material in the previous topic. Topic content is adaptive based on a learner’s performance on quizzes.

The quiz screens: a question
1 of 6A question
The quiz screens: answers chosen
2 of 6Answers chosen
The quiz screens: feedback
3 of 6Feedback
The quiz screens: an explanation
4 of 6An explanation
The quiz screens: reviewing the related content
5 of 6Reviewing the related content
The quiz screens: the last question, graded
6 of 6The last question, graded

Quiz

At the end of each topic, a multiple choice quiz helps gauge learners’ retention of the material and tailor the next topic to their comprehension.

Learners mark each answer as sure or not sure. A wrong or unsure answer adds a short review to the course.

A wrong answer offers an explanation of the correct one, or a link to related material in the core experience.

Outcome

The designs were delivered to ILearn as the basis for development. After using the beta to secure further funding, ILearn brought us back to improve its usability.