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This project redesigned the curriculum authoring experience to reduce friction, enforce instructional standards, and enable faster, more consistent content creation through structured tools and AI-assisted workflows.
* Real work adapted for portfolio use
Designing a streamlined curriculum authoring experience that supports both writers and the final learning experience.
This project focused on reducing friction in the curriculum writing process while supporting the needs of the teacher and student-facing product. The goal was to help curriculum writers create lessons, activities, and supplemental materials more efficiently, while also laying the groundwork for AI-assisted features. Design decisions were guided by how curriculum is authored in practice, how content ultimately appears to teachers and students, and the standards writers helped define.
I served as the sole designer and de facto project manager, leading the end-to-end design of the curriculum authoring experience from user research and concept validation through high-fidelity design and implementation support.
I collaborated with curriculum writers and engineering to research workflows, prototype and test solutions, and deliver production-ready designs that reduce friction and improve curriculum creation efficiency.
I facilitated a collaborative ideation workshop with curriculum writers using FigJam to understand their full curriculum-creation workflow. We then ran structured ideation exercises to capture feature ideas that would help writers create curriculum more efficiently.
To validate complex interactions, I built an interactive Figma Make prototype of the course outline editor and conducted usability testing by observing real tasks, documenting friction, and iterating on findings.
I translated validated concepts into polished, production-ready designs aligned with the design system. Throughout development, I worked closely with engineering to clarify interactions, respond to technical constraints, and ensure the final implementation matched the intended experience.
The course outline provides a high-level view of the entire curriculum, allowing writers to understand and manage the course structure at a glance. Nested accordions make it easy to move between a full-course overview and more detailed views of units, chapters, and sections.
The section editor is where writers create and manage the content for individual sections. It adapts to the type of section being authored, providing structure where needed while allowing flexibility for more complex lesson formats.
AI tools were introduced to help curriculum writers produce high-quality content more efficiently while maintaining consistency across courses. Each tool is designed to support—not replace—the writing process, with clear structure and editorial control.
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