What I did UI and Interaction design

Platform Mobile App – iOS

Thomas's craft and adaptability allowed us to test new ideas quickly and iterate towards short and long-term goals. A real pleasure working together.

Chris Boardman, Director of Mobile at Skillshare (2016-2017)

Background

Skillshare is an online learning community based in the United States for people who want to learn from educational videos.

In 2017, Michael Karnjanaprakorn (the former CEO) asked me to team up with his team to design a new way for students to interact each other. Skillshare believes that learning happens best when students connect with one another to chat, ask questions, gain inside knowledge or get to know each other. They had seen discussions happen in classes and wanted to explore a different way of student interaction.

This feature was designed only for mobile as they were experimenting with it to increase mobile WAU (Weekly Active Users).

Note: This project was completed before they did a rebranding and revamp in 2020.

Concepts

In the first weeks, I looked at the various ways students could interact with other students. Here is a glimpse of the concepts.

Concept #1: Chat-based groups

Students can join groups based on their interests and engage in free, topicless, chat-based interactions.