Summary
Cultivate, a tool from UChicago Impact, analyzes how teaching practices influence students' attitudes, strategies, and academic performance. It offers educators insights into 5th-12th graders' self-perceptions and highlights key factors in the learning environment that promote strong mindsets and well-being.
The Cultivate team aimed to boost user engagement and improve the organization of their site’s extensive content. While the platform provided valuable information, it required better access to key interactions and enhanced design consistency. Additionally, we addressed the challenge of ethically comparing student data groups, ensuring the analysis was unbiased and responsible.
As the design lead for this project, I directed the team in synthesizing research into essential insights, personas, journey maps, and guiding principles. I also played a key role in ensuring visual consistency, facilitating ideation sessions, designing wireframes, providing consultation, and creating prototypes.