GRAND CHALLENGE - PERSONALIZED LEARNING
Product Design, Service Design, UX Design
Nowadays, world engineers are facing 14 grand challenges. They are the main targets for us to work on in the future in order to improve life on our planet. As a group of five, my teammates and I focused on the personalized learning challenge and designed a series of products to support primary school students to learn in their own learning styles.Â
We decided to focus on the three basic learning styles: visual, auditory and physical, and design corresponding toys to help children learn specifically with one of the styles listed. To start with, we chose math as our target subject to learn, and primary school lower graders as our target users. The three products we had for math were animal number cards for visual learners, talking calculators for auditory learners, and 3D printed number blocks for physical learners. A picture of all physical products we designed is shown above.
WEBSITE
As shown in the picture, the products will come in a box with corresponding subject and learning style printed on top of it. In order to get the boxes of toys, the children and parents would need to go to our website to take a test and figure out the learning style first. The test asked 10 simple questions about children's daily habits and could be done on their own or with the help from their parents. Once the users got their test results, they could choose to read more about the specific learning style, and then went to the store page to get our designed products. The website can be visited through this link: https://personalizedlearni56.wixsite.com/learnable
USABILITY TEST
We have done usability tests repeatedly for this project in order to figure out if the test question design was fine or children would really benefit from the toys designed for their learning styles. We found five kids to run our online test and played with the corresponding toy with their parents. Most of them gave positive feedback and enjoyed the process. As a result, we believed that our project did a good job in helping children to find the most effective way of learning. We would be developing the project by designing more products for other subjects in the future.
