MAKING EDUCATION POSSIBLE FOR REFUGEE CHILDREN DURING COVID-19
CLIENT
Warchild
ROLE
Art Direction and UI Design
PRODUCT
Learning Managment System
The Syria conflict has led to many refugee camps in Lebanon. During the Covid lockdown many of the children in the camps were not able go to regular school and had to be home-schooled.
WarChild wanted to build an online school that the children could access on their parent's smartphone. They wanted to start with two courses, math and reading.
CLIENT
The Syria conflict has led to many refugee camps in Lebanon. During the Covid lockdown many of the children in the camps were not able go to regular school and had to be home-schooled.
WarChild wanted to build an online school that the children could access on their parent's smartphone. They wanted to start with two courses, math and reading.
Art Direction
To maintain a link to the regular school program, I decided to keep the same learning buddy's
that the children already knew from their course work. What at first were just offline characters in a textbook could now become animated which I did using micro animations.
Because the children would be doing the courses on their own, it was essential that they remained motivated. I implemented an extrinsic gamification element where the children would earn a star after each completed lesson, giving them a sense of accomplishment. The stars would accumulate as they progressed through their coursework, motivating them to keep the momentum of learning.
In addition, I implemented an intrinsic gamification that once the children completed their lesson, they would be able to unlock the next lesson. This gave more weight to the completion of the lesson and in turn has an empowering effect on the children.
UI DESIGN
As the children are still learning how to read, it was important that the user interface was visual and intuitive. To distinguish the math course from the reading course, I used orange for maths and green for reading. Following this same method, any new courses created in the future would receive their own colour code.
In addition, each lesson had its own buddy with a different occupation, to separate the lessons visually from each other.