Hex Insights

Verita School Portals

UX/UI

Academic Software

Overview

As founding product designer for Hex Insights client, Verita International School, I built the admin, teacher, and parent portals from the ground up.

As founding product designer for Hex Insights client, Verita International School, I built the admin, teacher, and parent portals from the ground up.

As founding product designer for Hex Insights client, Verita International School, I built the admin, teacher, and parent portals from the ground up.

Role

Founding Product Designer

Founding Product Designer

Founding Product Designer

Tools

Figma

Figma

Figma

The task at hand

Challenge

How can we create an academic software tool that is enjoyable and intuitive for users to complete advanced tasks on a daily basis?

Objective

Design a ground breaking product that draws inspiration from the classroom environment.

Understanding the goal and Verita users

🧑‍🏫 Speak to the user demographic

📈 Increase productivity and enjoyment

Verita users are administrators

Admin users need to seamlessly complete tasks like onboard new students, manage finances, and communicate with staff and parents.

Admin users need to seamlessly complete tasks like onboard new students, manage finances, and communicate with staff and parents.

Admin users need to seamlessly complete tasks like onboard new students, manage finances, and communicate with staff and parents.

Verita users are grade school teachers

Teachers need to complete tasks like take attendance, track grades and assignments, and schedule meetings.

Teachers need to complete tasks like take attendance, track grades and assignments, and schedule meetings.

Teachers need to complete tasks like take attendance, track grades and assignments, and schedule meetings.

Verita users are parents of students

Parents need to communicate with school staff, track student coursework, and be notified about school activities and news.

Parents need to communicate with school staff, track student coursework, and be notified about school activities and news.

Parents need to communicate with school staff, track student coursework, and be notified about school activities and news.

Establishing the brand

Since the Verita portals are used to manage grade school students, we wanted to draw inspiration from the youthful classroom environment when building the design system and branding guidelines. We wanted to break the mold of dull government portals and provide an enjoyable experience for our Verita users.

Since the Verita portals are used to manage grade school students, we wanted to draw inspiration from the youthful classroom environment when building the design system and branding guidelines. We wanted to break the mold of dull government portals and provide an enjoyable experience for our Verita users.

Since the Verita portals are used to manage grade school students, we wanted to draw inspiration from the youthful classroom environment when building the design system and branding guidelines. We wanted to break the mold of dull government portals and provide an enjoyable experience for our Verita users.

Teacher portal workflows

Course details

Manage course lesson plans, assessments, and more

Manage course lesson plans, assessments, and more

Manage course lesson plans, assessments, and more

Attendance

Take attendance daily and track attendance records

Take attendance daily and track attendance records

Take attendance daily and track attendance records

Gradebook

View students' grades per assignment

View students' grades per assignment

View students' grades per assignment

Assignment details

Manage assignment deadlines, submissions, and grades

Manage assignment deadlines, submissions, and grades

Manage assignment deadlines, submissions, and grades

Admin portal workflows

Homepage

Stay up to date on school activity

Stay up to date on school activity

Stay up to date on school activity

Enroll student

Enroll new students and build class schedules

Enroll new students and build class schedules

Enroll new students and build class schedules

Parent portal workflows

Chats

Communicate with school staff

Communicate with school staff

Communicate with school staff

Activity timeline

Social feed to share news, events, and more

Social feed to share news, events, and more

Social feed to share news, events, and more

Success metrics

We saw the following great results within the first 72 hours after the launch:

We saw the following great results within the first 72 hours after the launch:

We saw the following great results within the first 72 hours after the launch:

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