EF Classroom

The EF Classroom

EF prides itself in bringing real teachers into the English-language education of students all over the world. A cornerstone of this experience is the Online Classroom.

Already deeply involved with a generic Adobe Connect™ and its proprietary Flash technology, EF needed to make a change. In a bold move, EF decided to build and deploy its own multi-user interactive classroom, including the voice and video communication.

My contribution to the project was to:

  • plan the project lifecycle (scope, strategy, design, development, testing, rollout, launch),
  • initial definition of problem-space and user research,
  • design the students' UX for 3 platforms (web, tablet, mobile),
  • design the teachers' UX for web,
  • build interactive prototypes aimed at user-research,
  • perform user research and design validation in Mandarin,

Company: EF Education First (Shanghai, China)
Team: Lilith Lin, Chriest Yu, Chris Chen
Role: User Experience Designer
Timeline: October 2014 to July 2015
Status: EF Classroom is available on Google Play and the Apple App Store.

EF Classroom on Google Play EF Classroom on the App Store

View the case-study of a project on student churn of the previous EF Classroom.

Notes allows students to record notes during class
Chat allows text communication between students and the teacher
Attendees panel shows who is in the class
Info displays metadata about the class

Teacher Observation

Photo of an EF teacher teaching from a teaching center in Shanghai, China

Bespoke Features

  • icon for raising your hand Class Management
  • icon for class slides Tailored Teaching Content
  • icon for a muted microphone Microphone Rights Control

Students can learn anywhere, at their convenience.

Consistent Across The Board

Icons

Unique, tailor-made, cross-device, and readable.

12 stylish icons which were designed for the EF Classroom

Fully featured, even on touch devices!