design · 2015 to 2016
A self-assessment and preference exploration space that helps learners understand their own accessibility needs, set learning goals and reflect on their progress. It was part of the FLOE project at the Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University, Toronto.
We wrote personas and use cases for four kinds of people: beginners starting something new, learners improving a skill they already have, experienced users of the dashboard, and the parents, teachers and peers who support them, with the learner’s permission.
We defined the dashboard’s features around one learner, Jamie. My goals holds goals and milestones, my journal holds notes and moods, and my files holds documents. Each can link to the others: a note to a milestone, a document to a goal.
The home page shows progress, activity, the journal and preferences at a glance. Primary navigation leads to goals, journal and files, each with its own list and detail views.
In the wireframes, anything a learner writes starts as a note. The dashboard then asks whether to link it to a goal, a preference or the calendar, or to turn it into a goal of its own.
We designed the interface in Adobe Illustrator and built an interactive prototype in Framer.js, so the team could try the flow from setting a goal to reflecting on it.
“Set a reminder and it will be displayed here, like a notification.”