Voclab

The problem

Content outline

Current child language learning apps often fall short in engagement, personalization, and parental control. There's a clear need for an AI-driven solution that blends fun, adaptive challenges with seamless parental involvement to create a more effective and engaging learning experience.

Team: Andrew Lin, Emily Xu, Carter Chen, Kayla Choi, Alexa Rahardjo

Research : When researching this topic - we looked into both children learning patterns, but parents as well.
Process : We walk you through our iterative design process - from ideation to hi-fi prototypes
Solution : We’ll discuss both the parent and child user flows and solutions of our product design
Takeways: We reflect on the unexpected challenges, and how we engaged with each one.

My Role/Responsibilities

Project Manager, UX/UI Design, Design System, Product Design

Research

Primary Research

Child Motivation

Each “lesson” has some form of game to keep child engaged

Challenges

Visual aids and themed lessons to reinforce language separation in context.

Ideal products

engaging activity to motivate child to continue to play & speak with the AI

14 Questions
5 Interviews
6 Design Insights

AI sentiments

Lesson history & parental controls on key elements of AI interaction

Parent Objectives

Gamification of lesson structures & Trophies to reward progress

Child motivations

“Lessons” will be broken into topics that teach children conversation

Secondary Research

AI Language Agents

Research on child-AI HCI gave insight on how to utilize AI in the language learning journey for children through dialogue.

Parent Engagement

Research on interactive design for children found product design that involves parents in the product design process boosts user metrics & engagement for child users.

Storytelling & Play

Child developlmental learning research shows that roleplay activities help engage in and develop executive function in children.

Competitive Analysis

AI niche : Language learning apps lack well-thought-out AI integrations
Parent Control : Most language learning apps lack functional parental engagement
Child-specific features : Key competitors feature child-specific engagement activities and gamification