Honor Learn

Honor’s team had a bold vision for elevating the digital student experience but lacked the expertise to design and build high-quality products needed to bring it to life.

Goals

My primary goal was to elevate the quality of Honor’s digital products by establishing a strong foundation of design excellence and instilling a culture of high standards across the company.

This involved creating a scalable design system, reducing feature bloat, and refining the overall user experience to align with our core mission and values—all while ensuring the product remained engaging and intuitive to use.

Insights

When I joined, several pilots with institutions had already been conducted. By reviewing existing data, I identified two key opportunities to enhance the student experience:

Give Students Choice

Students were overwhelmed by the abundance of engagement features, which often distracted them from their primary goal: studying. We needed to create a balance—allowing students to focus when needed while providing easy access to peer and instructor collaboration when they sought support.

Celebrate Student Engagement

Students were actively participating in conversations, debates, and collaborative activities, yet their contributions went unrecognized. By celebrating and rewarding their engagement, we could encourage deeper involvement and foster a sense of accomplishment within the learning experience.

Students are able to react to content with intention—did they find something confusing? Interesting? Debatable?—and allow their peers to collectively engage together to foster shared understanding.

We don't force endless feeds of content on students, and we celebrate them coming back day after day, too.

When you engage with the material or your peers, we recognize that with customizable stickers for your digital notebooks.

We rebuilt the entire design system from scratch to allow for greater consistency across the entire app ecosystem, as well as be more scalable for future products to come.

Outcomes

After 18 months of focused effort, we delivered a more cohesive and user-friendly platform. Key results included:

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reduction in unique components and styles through a scalable design system, improving consistency and efficiency.

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increase in student engagement with unique platform features, driven by better onboarding and usability.

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increase in daily app usage, reflecting a more streamlined and enjoyable user experience.

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