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Project Overview

Team

​Jingting Wang, Rebecca Mao, Yuri Chen, Ally Chang, & Xinwei Sage Pei

Role 

  • Product Manager 

  • UX Designer 

Skills + Tools 

  • Figma

  • Miro Board 

  • Google Suite

Deliverables

  • Research and Discovery Report 

  • Style guide 

  • Figma prototype

Chinese is one of the hardest languages to learn due to the lack of an alphabet, different tonalities, and cultural nuances. 

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Clavis Sinica is a Chinese reading comprehension solution created to aid intermediate-advanced students learning Chinese, with features like an in-text dictionary, additional reading materials, and practice tools; it was tested and used on campuses at UofM, Stanford, Yale, etc. 

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However, due to the long beta process, the software's designs are now outdated and inaccessible. 

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Our goals are to : 

1. Revamp the mobile version of Clavis Sinica to provide tailored & intuitive learning experiences for students 

2. Introduce new features to address common learning challenges

Design Process

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Research & Findings

We conducted surveys and interviewed a combined 80+ professors and current students of Chinese. 

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We organized these findings into affinity diagrams, tables & charts to help us better understand user needs and preferences. 

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We discovered that students and professors want...

Modern and applicable learning materials

Interactive and challenging practices

Culturally integrated lessons

Comprehensive of language nuances

These insights helped us to better understand our target users, their motivations, and needs, leading to  the creation of user personas and journey maps which helped us in determining UX requirements and brainstorming new features. 

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Highlighted Design Features

Ultimately, our team of 5  delivered 120+ Figma screens to create a mobile Chinese language learning ecosystem, addressing key learning challenges with integrated classrooms, customized learning plans, and an iterable design that allow for user contribution (i.e. word upload)

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Along with these designs, we also created a style guide and UX specifications to ensure a smooth handoff to the development team to create an MVP and test at UofM.

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