Kern is an education platform catered to high school student creatives designed by myself and 3 other creatives in graduate school for a project. Kern was designed to bridge the skill gap between students finishing their high school careers and entering their college careers. Kern is a virtual pre-college program for high schoolers, giving them ideas of what colleges and design-based majors will lead to their dream careers and then training them with the latest design skills they need to know before starting college.
After all, in the wise words of Sir Ken Robinson, “creativity now is as important as education literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.”
Kern focuses on user experience for two parties involved in the pre-college program experience, the professors involved in teaching and the students involved in learning. In order to best incorporate Kern into the lives and existing workflows of users, we based the student prototype in mobile and the professor prototype on desktop. The students are already using their phones for learning and day to day life, while professors are using desktop and laptop computers.
The features we decided to prototype for the students application are: selecting a major, selecting classes, processing payment, watching a lecture, uploading and submitting final work and portfolio projects, and earning a certificate of completion.
