AccessED
Creators: Yasi, Usman, Ashton, Joann & Ryan
School: High School Students from New Dorp High School
Location: Staten Island, NY
Project Themes: Education
About this Project
This app enhances student life by centralizing academic and extracurricular resources, helping students stay organized and on top of their responsibilities. It encourages focus by letting students lock distracting apps in exchange for rewards, while offering AI-powered tutoring, event updates, and easy access to teacher and club information. By streamlining daily routines and boosting engagement, the app empowers students to be more productive, connected, and successful.
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This is an app that I wish I had even in college. The core value of reducing distractions is present throughout the design. Having many of the aspects needed to maintain academic success (e.g. credit / task tracking, announcements) live in a central place makes it easier to focus on what's needed. I like that users receive points to incentivize them to lock access to their apps for extended periods of time.
I also love that the design choices made were the direct result of the survey analysis. It's incredibly important to understand the needs of your target audience when developing a product, and it's clear that you took the feedback you received seriously.
A great next step would be to roll this out to more schools to identify changes that need to be made to make the app more universal and allow it to scale.
Excellent job!
I also love that the design choices made were the direct result of the survey analysis. It's incredibly important to understand the needs of your target audience when developing a product, and it's clear that you took the feedback you received seriously.
A great next step would be to roll this out to more schools to identify changes that need to be made to make the app more universal and allow it to scale.
Excellent job!
Very thoughtful intent to make the app anti-distraction while the function also serves as a hub for all the domains of a student's life- the design is clearly reflecting this intent. The rewards and leaderboard are strong features- it can motivate students to complete their own tasks and adding that social element reinforce it even more.
For further improvements, it might help knowing which specific features are most accessed throughout a school day and consider making them most accessible on the bottom tab bar and put the remaining as options in the hamburger menu, announcements could be a little more accessible through notifications in the home itself with number and badges. Reconsider the fonts and overall design. Also, couldn't see how the AI powered tutoring would look clearly through design.
Next step would be to refine the design and perform usability testing realtime.
Overall solid planning and effort Yasi, Usman, Ashton, Joann, and Ryan.
For further improvements, it might help knowing which specific features are most accessed throughout a school day and consider making them most accessible on the bottom tab bar and put the remaining as options in the hamburger menu, announcements could be a little more accessible through notifications in the home itself with number and badges. Reconsider the fonts and overall design. Also, couldn't see how the AI powered tutoring would look clearly through design.
Next step would be to refine the design and perform usability testing realtime.
Overall solid planning and effort Yasi, Usman, Ashton, Joann, and Ryan.
