An intelligent planning tool designed to help educators create engaging, personalized lesson plans in minutes. Leveraging AI, it generates curriculum-aligned content, adapts to student learning levels, and recommends activities and assessments—saving teachers time while enhancing classroom impact.
My Role
As Lead UX/UI Designer, I shaped the AI-powered lesson planner from concept to launch. I worked closely with the founders to define the vision, interviewed teachers to ground decisions in real classroom reality, and translated insights into clear flows, information architecture, and interfaces. Through quick design–feedback cycles with engineering and data science, I delivered a planner that teachers could trust, understand, and enjoy using.
The Challange
1. Finding the right audience and use case
We needed to identify which educators felt planning pain most intensely and were open to trying AI—then design around their workflow instead of trying to serve everyone at once.
2. Designing AI that feels like a partner
Many teachers were skeptical of AI. The experience had to position it as a helpful assistant that respects their expertise, not a “black box” replacing professional judgment.
3. Saving time without lowering quality
Teachers would only adopt the product if it genuinely reduced planning time and kept lessons aligned with standards, differentiation, and outcomes.
Process & Approach
Understanding Teachers & Refining the ICP
I interviewed K–12 teachers, tutors, and homeschooling parents to understand how they plan today and where time is lost. Patterns showed our strongest fit was time-poor, quality-driven teachers managing multiple classes and levels. We refined our ICP around this group and continuously checked new features against their real planning habits.
Designing a Supportive Planning Experinece
We designed the flow to feel like a natural extension of how teachers already plan: set objectives, generate a structured lesson, adjust activities and timing, then save templates for reuse. Inputs are broken into simple steps, with quick actions for “plan tomorrow’s lesson” and visual summaries that show balance across instruction, practice, and assessment at a glance.
Collaborating with Founders and Cross-Functional Teams
I worked with the founding team to keep product decisions anchored in teacher feedback and business priorities. Partnering with engineering and data science, I translated AI capabilities into simple, classroom-ready interactions and used prototypes and user clips to align stakeholders around real teacher stories.
Impact & Key Learnings
✨ Respecting teacher expertise drives adoption
Positioning AI as an assistant—transparent, editable, and under teacher control—made educators more willing to try and keep using the product.
✨ Time savings translate to real relief
Reducing repetitive planning work gave teachers back meaningful time in the evenings and weekends, which they consistently highlighted in feedback.
✨ Context-aware AI creates real value
Lessons tailored to specific students, standards, and constraints felt genuinely useful, turning the tool from a novelty into a dependable planning partner.