Research, Conceptualization
Design Systems
My Role
Personal Project
Status: Conceptual 🧠
Public Domain Website
Project Specs
As a professional one must juggle the responsibility of staying informed, staying atop of industry trends, and renewing their skillset to remain marketable. This laundry list of requirements can quickly become convoluted, making the basic requirements of maintaining marketability a daunting one. This project was conceived as a response to these issues, on the outset our high-level goals were:
Value Proposition: This initiative would resolve redundancies in the code and rectify any loose ends, leading to a more seamless user experience with an easily navigable interface that provides clear categorization and hierarchical organization of data so that information can be retrieved in a more logical and timely manner.
Provide both light and dark mode for a comfortable and adaptable reading experience
Enhance discoverability with a simple yet effective tagging system
Encourage interaction and strengthen community through a simplified commenting feature
Improve the learning experience through gamification features
As the site's primary purpose was to serve as a living library of users' continuous contribution and content, it needed to account for scalability and serve as a convenient vessel for consuming heavy text content. A deliberate mix of minimalist and brutalist principles guided the design, paring down extraneous detail in favour of concise and focused content, eliminating unnecessary distraction to allow for the bare essentials.
The UI is built to be versatile and accommodates the readers' various habits, needs, and lifestyles.
Quality of Life (QOL) considerations such as a theme toggle were subtle but important ways that enhanced the app's appeal and usability. Text legibility in relation to screen brightness and environmental conditions were key considerations in the design of this feature.
Discoverability has been greatly enhanced through an efficient tagging system.
A content site is only as useful as its ease of access, discoverability, and sharing. Users are provided with filter chips to quickly focus content to their intent.
Engaging with other users across the app is simple, with a readily available chat bubble icon that allows you to quickly jump into the conversation.
By opening any article and clicking one of the three action buttons on the right side of the screen, you can quickly summon the discussion panel, bookmark articles for future reference, or even share on secondary social media sites away from the platform.
Keep on top of industry trends with an integrated learning system. A gamified experience to enhance achievement and progression.
Learning as its own reward, though a lofty concept, is one that is often unrewarded and heaped in tedium. To offload the burden of learning and to resection it into sizeable chunks, the content has been sectioned into easily digestible modules. To reward continuous learning and to encourage consistency, an achievement system has been introduced to reinforce repeated engagement with the content and to mark milestone events such as completing a full course or module.
The short timeframe of this project meant that we needed to generate a lot of ideas in a short span of time. The initial outset of this project was slow as team members were focused on their own projects that made collaboration difficult. However, once the team touched base with a new strategy, the project quickly came together with a newfound vision.