Reamember Mobile Application

I had the idea for this design when I first came to New York City for graduate school. I needed to do a lot of reading but at that time my English was not very good, especially my vocabulary. I had a hard time understanding the reading materials because of the unfamiliar words. However, if I paused on reading to check out the meaning of the words, the reading flow would be interrupted. If I ignored the words, I would feel like missing out on opportunities of learning new words. That experience gave me the initial inspiration for this design: how might we help people who are studying another language to achieve learning goals on reading and vocabulary building in a seamless way?

The main focus of my design is to solve the pain point, or, the dilemma to be more accurate, in the English learning process. The cause of the problem is that English learners had to choose between checking out unfamiliar words or ignoring those words to achieve a nice reading flow. To solve this problem, I designed an experience where users can quickly check out the words while reading, so they won't break the flow. And those words they checked out will be stored in the vocabulary book. They can review and learn the words later, in their dedicated vocabulary learning time.

The "Reading" and "Vocabulary-building" part of the design is pretty polished. I have run multiple user testing sessions to collect feedback and iterate on the design details. However, the "Community" tab of the design is still at an early stage, with a lot of potential to be a strong add-on to the current experience. In my vision for this product, users will form a language learning community where they share learning tips and articles. Another area of improvement is to support other languages beyond just English.