Connect the brand and interface.
The initial design system linked branding and UI/UX to product strategy, giving the admissions platform a shared design foundation.
12 / Mergen
Guidance for
what comes next.
Product design and strategy for an AI-assisted college-admissions platform.
- My contribution
- Product design & strategy. Branding, UI/UX, design-system work, and feature framing.
- Team context
- Cross-disciplinary EdTech collaboration.
- Stage
- Design and product framing
- Delivered
- Initial design system and core-feature direction.
Product scope / reconstructed
- GuidanceCollege-admissions needs.
- ExperienceCore features and interactions.
- Design systemBranding and shared UI language.
- StrategyCross-disciplinary alignment.
An overview of design and strategy work; no launch or performance claim.
Key decisions.
Frame the core experience.
Product work connected college-admissions counseling to AI-assisted features, bringing guidance, interface decisions, and technical considerations into the same scope.
Bring disciplines together.
The work involved alignment across engineers, researchers, and founders, connecting the product’s direction with the experience it aimed to provide.
Outcome & next step.
Brought brand, interface, and product direction together around admissions guidance.