Role
UX Designer
Yenilugat
Designing a user-centric CMS admin panel for an educational platform, enhancing content management flexibility.
Timeline
4 Months
Core Challenge
Navigating through an endless amount of educational content and ensuring efficient management can be daunting. Yenilugat is at the forefront of transforming this challenge into an opportunity, by developing an admin panel that serves as a versatile content management tool, irrespective of the subject matter.
By introducing a flexible and user-centric admin panel for educational platforms, Yenilugat is setting new standards for how educational content is curated, managed, and delivered.
How might we enhance and streamline educational content management?
Solution Approach
Flexibility
Create a content management system that is adaptable across various educational subjects without compromising on the depth or quality of content.
Tech Integration
Incorporate advanced AI features for content creation, ensuring they are accessible and easy to use for all administrators, regardless of their technical expertise.
User-Friendly Design
Focus on optimizing the information architecture to improve administrative efficiency through intuitive design principles.
Conceptualizing a Dynamic Educational Content Management System
Conceptual Framework
In alignment with the Yenilugat's mission to enhance administrative efficiency across varied educational content, we've developed a dynamic content management system that emphasizes intuitive navigation and organization. This system is designed to cater to the diverse needs of educational platforms, accommodating a wide range of subjects through a structured yet flexible hierarchy.
Hierarchical Navigation
Our interface introduces a straightforward hierarchy: categories, modules, sections, unit and lessons, complemented by breadcrumbs for clear path tracing. This layout facilitates easy content organization and also ensures effortless navigation, allowing users to quickly move through different levels of content.
Intelligent Search Functionality
A key feature is the advanced search bar with sub-category filters, enabling users to pinpoint content swiftly. This tool significantly reduces the time spent searching for specific lessons or modules, making the educational content more accessible.
Flexible Management
Flexibility is at the core of our system, allowing for the reordering and renaming of navigation elements to suit evolving educational requirements. This adaptability ensures that the platform remains relevant and aligned with instructional goals.
Leveraging AI for Simplified Content Creation
The big pivot
Facing the complexity and unintuitiveness of traditional content management tools, administrators struggle to unlock their creative potential. This challenge, highlighted by our user feedback, reveals a pressing need for a simpler, more intuitive approach to content creation.
Recognizing this gap, we've designed our AI tool to transform content creation from a daunting task into an empowering experience, ensuring innovation and engagement are within easy reach for every user.
Detailed Features
Empowerment and Clarity
We balance user autonomy with guidance, ensuring users not only use AI tools effectively but also understand their operations to manage outputs responsibly.
Educational Engagement
We prioritize user education on AI, using interface cues and loading screens to explain technology and improve interactions. AI processing times become opportunities to inform users about its capabilities and limitations, turning waits into educational moments.
Friction for Careful Use
We add checkpoints for users to check AI-generated content's accuracy, emphasizing the necessity of human input in the creative process and promoting responsible AI use.
Challenges and Learnings
This project reinforced the importance of starting with a solid foundation of user research and interface architecture. Developing a hierarchical navigation system that was both intuitive and adaptable demonstrated how essential a user-centered approach is in creating a content management system that meets diverse needs effectively.