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Looka
Looka is a digital learning environment for history that uses immersive scrolling, 3D, VR and AR to bring students to life in the story and enhance the digital learning experience.
Role:
UI/UX Designer
Industry:
Personal project
Duration:
7 Months
Challenges
User Experience: Designing a learning software requires a lot of testing with different users. The challenge lies in the different preferences Looka had to make true for all the different types of learners.
Immersive Reading Experience: Using the right media, in the right ways to make a story come to life can be tricky. Looka managed to provide this experience with different on-scroll interactions.
Readability: Making sure the users stays hinged, and not distracted by the forms of media used was a nice challange. Looka ended up finding the perfect base between movement and informative.
My Approach
Discovery Phase
Cause of Concept: Looking at the current software and experiences and conclude areas for improvement by drawing up boundary conditions.
Deskresearch: Researching different media that influence reading skills and increased material absorption. These media exist out of: VR, AR, 3D models and bionic reading.
Design and Development
Co-creation: Sketching out the very first prototype in a co-creation session with the target group. Making sure to include their idea's and wishes as close as possible.
A-B testing: Testing out different designs and implementations of media, and gathering feedback from the target group
Development in Framer: Building a scale-able design into Framer, forming a very first testable prototype of Looka.
Testing and Iteration
User Testing: Reached out to various different students and teachers for feedback, while using Looka.
Conducting Experts: Testing the prototype versions with experts with various backgrounds regarding Design, Development and Teaching.
Results
“How can a digital solution broaden the curriculum of the History subject for first-year Havo students, whereby the interests of the students are promoted with the help of AR, VR or 3D”
This is made possible by Looka, an interactive digital history software developed for iPad format. Looka, together with the use of movements based on scrolling and new techniques in the form of AR, VR and 3D models, makes it possible that the interest of students is rekindled and history becomes fun and interactive again.
Future Plans
Exposure: Looking for the opportunity to showcase Looka at an educational fair, and make more people aware of the backlog of digital learning.
