TUTOR NEST
A designed from scratch education app
Project Overview - Completed December 2024
A full design process researching and designing an app with the goal of connecting a learner with a mentor with expertise in a certain skill. Features include scheduling tutor sessions, finding a compatible tutor match, and a notes section to stay organized.
Our Team
- Averie Lockhart
- Aleksandra Beiner
- John Morales
- Elizabeth Zuck
My Role
My role included setting up wireframes and their components, sketches, and gathering research via interviews and a survey.
Tools Used
Our Goal
The goal of our app was to connect someone wanting to a learn a certain skill, with someone who excels and can teach said skill. This also included identifying methods to keep the user engaged, motivated, and supported.
Our Solution & Impact
We achieved our goal by designing engaging features directly informed by user research and validated insights. By prioritizing accessibility, we delivered educational tools that created meaningful impact within underserved communities.
Our Problem
User Research
Our first step was to understand our user, and we began with each of us creating a behavioral archetype based off of assumptions. We collected insights from 12 current or former students and teachers via a survey, organizing the findings into categories using an affinity map. I contributed by conducting an interview and summarizing the findings.
Our Users
Betty, a retired senior with a lifelong love for cooking, is feeling a bit stir-crazy and looking for meaningful ways to stay engaged.
She turns to Tutor Nest, an app that connects mentors with students, hoping to share her culinary skills and life lessons with young people.
Peter is a young adult living in a rural town, preparing to move out of his parents’ house. He wants to learn how to cook simple, healthy meals on his own without incurring student debt.
He uses the Tutor Nest app to connect with experienced mentors for personalized, self-paced learning.
We explored Peter's experience further by creating a journey map!
Our Users
BETTY - 65, Retired
Betty, a retired senior with a lifelong love for cooking, is feeling a bit stir-crazy and looking for meaningful ways to stay engaged.
She turns to Tutor Nest, an app that connects mentors with students, hoping to share her culinary skills and life lessons with young people.
PETER - 20, Waiter
Peter is a young adult living in a rural town, preparing to move out of his parents’ house. He wants to learn how to cook simple, healthy meals on his own without incurring student debt.
He uses the Tutor Nest app to connect with experienced mentors for personalized, self-paced learning.
I created a journey map to further explore Peter's experience!
User Flow
Before creating the wireframes for our app, I was tasked to create a user flow. We used this to ideate the steps Peter would take to achieve his goal.
Prioritizing Ideas
Using the MoSCoW method, we then chose which features to include in our design, while keeping in mind the challenges and drawbacks we might face in the process. I contributed by brainstorming ideas and sorting them into categories.
Competitive Analysis
To inform our design with valuable insights, we conducted a competitive analysis of Khan Academy, Tutor.com, and SkillShare to identify problems and uncover opportunities. I contributed by analyzing each website and making notes of what pros and cons each had, and what features we could implement.
Usability Testing
After compiling our research and assets, we created low-fidelity screens and conducted usability testing to ensure our goals were met before finalizing the wireframes. I contributed by walking 2 users through our prototype, and summarizing our findings.
We each gathered research of one participant, and had them click through the prototype with the task of creating an account, editing your profile, and matching with a tutor.
Final Wireframes
We utilized the feedback we received from our user testing to shape our final design and features, while also keeping in mind our original user and his needs. This project in particular remained relatively low-fi, and greyscale. I contributed by designing 3 of the screens, and finalizing them in the prototype.
These 3 screens are the screens I designed and contributed to our final product.
Final Recap
Our app’s navigation proved to be successful, allowing the user to access the desired pages for our task. However we did receive significant feedback on the classification and organization of the content and data in the app.
Future Changes
If we continued to move the project forward, our priorities would be identifying sections and materials better, re-formatting buttons and their functionality, and more in-depth user testing.
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