Project type: Enterprise Application // Employer: Discovery Education
Product: Discovery Experience
Discovery Education: Curriculum-Aligned Resources
Enhancing teacher planning by surfacing the best resources and showing how they support instruction
THE CHALLENGE
Teachers are overwhelmed. They spend hours searching for resources that match their curriculum, and the homepage offered little support. It lacked personalization and clear entry points into planning. Teachers felt lost and often gave up before finding the right materials.
Goal: Help teachers quickly find curriculum-aligned resources and understand where they fit in a lesson.
BUSINESS GOALS
Improve homepage relevance and daily planning value
Increase engagement with curriculum-aligned resources
Create consistency across district implementations
Build foundations for personalization and intelligent recommendations
MY ROLE
As Product Designer, I partnered across product, engineering, instructional design, content, customer success, and leadership to:
Defined the vision for a new curriculum-aligned homepage experience
Shaped requirements for weekly recommendations and pacing controls
Built the Instructional Intent categorization model
Created user flows, prototypes, and multi-viewport designs
Delivered two concepts for teacher testing
Drove cross-functional alignment across product, engineering, content, and customer teams
DESIGN APPROACH
Teachers needed resources that matched the curriculum they were required to follow, not a generic list of assets. We started with the most widely used curricula in Florida, Texas, and California, including CKLA, Wonders, Eureka Math, and Bluebonnet K–5 RLA, and grounded our approach in the structure of each program.
Grounded the experience in how teachers plan: through their required curriculum
Started with high-use programs (CKLA, Wonders, Eureka Math, Bluebonnet)
Aligned resources to units, topics, and learning goals
Organized assets by instructional intent (e.g., build understanding, support literacy, enable active learning) to show how each resource fits into a lesson
WHAT WE BUILT
Curriculum-based browsing that mirrors district materials
Instructional Intent model grouping resources by their classroom purpose
Prototypes across mobile, tablet, and desktop
Side-by-side tests of district-style vs. intent-based alignment
KEY UX ENHANCEMENTS
We rebuilt the experience to match how teachers plan and teach, starting with high-value curricula in Florida, Texas, and California.
Curriculum-matched browsing: Navigate units and topics the same way teachers do in their core program
Pacing-aware recommendations: Surface resources based on where teachers are in the yearly plan
Instructional intent grouping: Quickly find what builds understanding, supports literacy, or drives active learning
Flexible, scalable system: Works across multiple curricula and teaching styles
Mapping the flows.
Created user flows from onboarding to resource discovery.
Multi-viewport designs.
Mobile, tablet, and desktop design to test planning across devices.
Curriculum-aligned resources snapshot
Design System
Expanded the K–12 grade-level color palette to better support curriculum mapping
Extended Discovery Education’s brand character system for clearer grade differentiation
Explored multiple color directions with the design system team
Ensured strict compliance with WCAG accessibility standards across all new visual styles
Sample screen designs
Final Flow for Bluebonnet K-5 RLA