
PYTHAGORAS
Cool For School
My Role: UX Designer
THE CHALLENGE
Did you do your homework?
When is the math test?
How was school?
These questions are asked in the majority of households in Israel that have school-aged children. Isn't it strange that nowadays we find most information fast and available to us, but still these questions are asked?
Parents, being parents want to know about homework, exams, friends, and other school and social related issues. They want to get reminders and information from a reliable source.
Children, being children are sometimes forgetful or embarrassed and tend to deliver information partially, late, or not at all.
Most parents communicate directly with the teacher only once or twice a year at the scheduled parent's meeting, which makes real-time problem solving difficult.


Teacher
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Dependent on student compliance with tasks
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Disorganized in managing the flow of information
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Lack of involvement and cooperation from parents

Child
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Forgetfulness
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Hiding
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Late or partial delivery of information

Parent
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Not knowing
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Great effort needed to remain involved
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Feels left out
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Things that could have been caught in time - "missed the train"
THE PROCESS
From my research, I was surprised to discover that:
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Academic scores and achievements are less important for parents than behavioral feedback.
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Parents expressed a need to be informed by teachers about their child's positive behavior and not just the “red flags”.
The research helped me define 3 guiding principles that will be reflected both in characterization and design:
Feel connected, updated and relevant
It was important to me to create a simple, user-friendly system, that provides an up-to-date, relevant, clean and clear picture of children’s school life.

I have conducted surveys and interviews of parents, teachers and students to get a solid understanding of their needs and problems.
I have also investigated the apps, websites and trends of the current market.
By examination of how things are working today, I have found the major points of difficulty, and then brainstormed, sketched and reframed concepts and solutions.

THE OUTCOME

The app is currently shown
from the parent's side

FEED
What are they learning now?

What's going on in school ?




CHRONOLOGICAL
REMINDERS

Teacher's FEEDBACK
positive & negative


RELEVANT messages +
Digital signature permissions


HOMEWORK sorted by due date


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Get to KNOW the teacher
