My Role
Company
Curie.Bio
Duration
3 Weeks
Curie.Bio is a biotech venture fund that helps founders launch successful therapeutic companies. Their holistic approach involves not only investment, but also support in sourcing the best talent for critical roles at their portfolio companies. I was hired to design an internal tooling platform their recruiting function could use to streamline their processes and leverage internal data to easily identify top talent.
As the sole designer, I lead a the design process from research to execution. I work closely with users to deeply understand their needs and iteratively develop and test new features. I also partner closely with engineering to maintain and evolve a design system to allow us to scale nimbly.
Teacher Interviews
To help frame the types of questions we would explore students in our user research, we interviewed 3 middle school teachers about their experiences facilitating positive learning environments and came away with the insights below -
Student Interviews
I wrote interview scripts and created survey questions to gather insights from 11 middle school students.
3.9 / 5
importance of connecting classroom material to the world outside
73%
prefer learning through games
100%
are motivated by a sense of achievement and progress
Our Persona, Jose
I synthesized our user research to create a persona that represented the key insights we identified. Jose grounded our team and helped us empathize with the needs and behaviors of middle school students.
We ran 3 usability tests with middle school users who all said they would be excited to use this website in class and found it easy to navigate. They particularly liked the quiz because they enjoyed trying to come up with an answer themselves.
In addition to delivering the designs for the modules themselves, I wrote accompanying documentation explaining the rationale behind design system elements we picked and how features tied back to research.