Jason Eric Looper
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UX/Motion Design
Fussy Sensei
A classroom management app for instructors and students of the Japanese language.
The Challenge
As part of a Google UX weekly design challenge, the remit was to design an experience helping educators match faces to names.
Objective:
- to shorten the time needed to reach complete unaided accuracy.
COVID mask requirements have made recognizing student faces all but impossible!
User Needs
When COVID restrictions were relaxed in Japan, the resumption of face-to-face classes meant strict classroom mask requirements among other precautions. This made it all the more difficult to match student names with faces hidden beneath masks.
In addition to a student database of names and profiles, my design proposal includes an attendance tracker as well as an English-to-Japanese/Japanese-to-English dictionary with kanji stroke writing practice for instructors.
Final Thoughts
This project ended up incomplete. And so, in terms of the objective–it was a failure.
I approached the challenge with every intention of focusing on the UX design process: research, wire-frame, user map, low-to-high fidelity UX screen designs.
But ultimately, it was the kanji stroke order feature for the proposed dictionary that held my attention most. Feeling satisfied with my design solution for a simulated stroke order, I abandoned the rest of the project. Sure, the low-fidelity UX screens shown here could have been omitted from this showcase, but in the spirit of “showing your work” I decided to included them without shame.
Weekly design challenges like this prove that while the final product/deliverable may not always satisfy completely, there’s much value to be had in the process itself. The simulated stroke solution has informed subsequent motion effects designs that I’ve developed or been a part of.
The motion is where it’s at!
Fussy Sensei
UX / Motion Design Challenge
Design Tools
Figma
Illustrator
After Effects
Client
Personal Project
Time
1 week