Rehabbing a Historic Hospital for Contemporary Education Use

Rehabbing a Historic Hospital for Contemporary Education Use

Rehabbing a Historic Hospital for Contemporary Education Use

Choose a learning focus area, and be immersed in engaging personal finance lessons that build confidence through solving puzzles and scenario based problems.

Choose a learning focus area, and be immersed in engaging personal finance lessons that build confidence through solving puzzles and scenario based problems.

Choose a learning focus area, and be immersed in engaging personal finance lessons that build confidence through solving puzzles and scenario based problems.

Project Overview

What's the problem?

Recent college graduates are not financially literate due to a lack of approachable and engaging education during high school and college.

Recent college graduates are not financially literate due to a lack of approachable and engaging education during high school and college.

How did we solve it?

Our team crafted an educational app that makes learning about personal finance exciting and motivating through gamification and curated learning plans.

Our team crafted an educational app that makes learning about personal finance exciting and motivating through gamification and curated learning plans.

My Role

Managed team of designers, led user interviewing and usability testing, designed final mobile prototype

Team

TEF Design, Creo Landscape Architecture, Holmes Structural Eng, BKF Civil Eng, MHC MEP Eng, Salter Acoustical Eng

Stakeholder

Presidio Trust

Future Tenant

Private Elementary School

Duration

11 months

My Role

Project Manager

User Researcher

UI production

Status

Future product development pending

Duration

3 weeks

Services

UX design

Deliverables

Hi-fidelity mobile and web mockups

Coded webpage

Figma file

Past Lives

Past Lives

Post Hospital

  1. Most users do not remember any useful personal finance skills they learned during high school and college

  2. Young adults tend to feel apprehensive to dive into certain financial topics because of intimidating lingo

  3. They feel motivated and connected to the content they’re learning when it’s personalized for their needs and it’s rewarded

  4. Most interviewees use educational or self improvement apps/websites regularly

Changes Over Time

Documenting Existing Structure

Documenting Existing Structure

Due to a short project timeline, we began by conducting user interviews in order to understand recent college grads’ backgrounds in personal finance education.

What we learned about our users

  1. Most users do not remember any useful personal finance skills they learned during high school and college

  2. Young adults tend to feel apprehensive to dive into certain financial topics because of intimidating lingo

  3. They feel motivated and connected to the content they’re learning when it’s personalized for their needs and it’s rewarded

  4. Most interviewees use educational or self improvement apps/websites regularly

Accessibility

Accessibility

Stairs

  1. Having the flexibility to choose any learning path might excite users

  2. Multiple learning styles like videos, games, and flashcards appeals to more users

  3. Progress bars and leaderboards could be fun, motivating elements

  4. Implementing a quiz to finalize a section of learning would allow users to feel accomplished and confident in their newfound knowledge

Elevators

  1. Having the flexibility to choose any learning path might excite users

  2. Multiple learning styles like videos, games, and flashcards appeals to more users

  3. Progress bars and leaderboards could be fun, motivating elements

  4. Implementing a quiz to finalize a section of learning would allow users to feel accomplished and confident in their newfound knowledge

Logging Data

Logging Data

Talk about voice recording window conditions and drawing mockups for each type to ensure prototypes were accurate and fit in existing spaces.


puzzling together additions and creating patterns that may have originally existed

Talk about voice recording window conditions and drawing mockups for each type to ensure prototypes were accurate and fit in existing spaces.


puzzling together additions and creating patterns that may have originally existed

Talk about voice recording window conditions and drawing mockups for each type to ensure prototypes were accurate and fit in existing spaces.


puzzling together additions and creating patterns that may have originally existed

Questions we asked

  1. What is the biggest challenge you face while understanding your finances?

  2. What is the biggest challenge you face while managing your finances?

  3. What is your preferred learning style?

What we discovered

  1. 68% of our respondents struggle to understand investments

  2. Over half of them find spending to be a significant challenge

  3. Majority of respondents are visual learners

  4. Respondents do not feel confident when it comes to savings and credit

Looking Ahead

Looking Ahead

  1. Build out the quiz feature to test the efficacy of teaching approaches within modules

  2. Integrate leaderboards feature to allow for in-classroom use as a supplemental learning tool

  3. Improve level of gamification by animating responses to correct/incorrect answers and reaching 100% progress on your meter

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