Curio Digital · Product Design · Better Future Awards 2023 · EdTech
To Future Me
A digital platform designed to deliver consent education for 13-14 year olds.
Opportunity
A digital consent education platform to scale its impact across Australia.
Kids First Australia approached Curio Digital to translate its current face-to-face consent program into a digital experience. The aim was to support schools and teachers to deliver this content and scale it's impact to reach more young people across Australia.
Outcomes
Helping schools deliver meaningful learning on consent and respectful relationships.
Completion rate across all modules
Reduction in session prep time for teachers.
Improvement in consent comprehension by students
Discovery
Digitising content must be delivered carefully that makes sense to young people.
Our research aimed to understand what mattered most to students in learning about this sensitive topic, as well as how schools and teachers preferred the program to be delivered.
We spoke with Year 8 health teachers, year-level coordinators, and principals to gather insights. Additionally, we ran three workshops with over 30 students from public, independent, and Catholic schools across Victoria, ensuring a mix of rural and metropolitan perspectives.
Interactive and engaging 🎲
Content must be delivered in an interactive and engaging way.
Relevant and relatable 💡
Learning content and experience must be age-appropriate and provide real life examples.
Privacy is priority 🔒
Anonymity was strongly preferred by students. This means content and activities must consider student privacy.
Provide pathways for support 🚸
Provide guidance to help customers stay on top of their responsibilities and prevent issues before they arise.
Define
Learning from best practices to engage young learners
Based on our discovery insights, I explored how other organisations and learning platforms design interactive and informative content for young people, focusing on best practices for engagement and effective learning.
Our guiding principles:
Leverage on familiarity 👯
Reduce learning curve and time to complete tasks and activities. Borrow experiences already common in education platforms used by students.
Personalise the experience ⭐️
Ensure the learning experience that feel personal to them, ensuring the content resonates and is truly absorbed to create an engaging experience.
Subtopic per page 📕
Prevent content overload and maintain focus through bite-sized, digestible subtopics to reduce excessive scrolling and easy navigation.
Ideation
Exploring ways to personalise and engage through content and digital experience
I collaborated closely with our learning designer to explore ways to personalise the learning content and digital experience. We brainstormed several ideas but landed on avatars as a way to deliver content from different perspectives. This became known as 'My support network' where students could pick an avatar that best represented their trusted friend, trusted adult and future self.
Students can choose their own avatars
During onboarding, we get students to select avatars that best represented themselves, future self, trusted adult and trusted friend.
Using the messaging chat design to introduce avatars
During onboarding, we get students to select avatars that best represented themselves, future self, trusted adult and trusted friend.
Reusable components to deliver learning content
We used the same chat bubble components throughout the platform to deliver learning content and unique perspectives based on the role for a holistic and engaging learning experience.
Handoff
Ensuring consistency and scalability
The handoff process with Kids First Australia was to ensure thorough documentation of the key components used that were crucial to the experience. This allows them to easily update and expand the platform in the future while maintaining a cohesive experience.
A key part of the experience was ensuring the page layout followed a structured design, aligning with the platform’s components and learning design principles for consistency.
Outcome
Launching to partnering schools across Melbourne
To Future Me was awarded with the Better Future Award for Product Design in Education (2023), recognising its impact in the learning space.
The program was trialled in Melbourne schools, gathering feedback to refine the experience before its official launch in early 2024.