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Dana Freud Is Honored with the A' Design Award for Oneder Website in Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design
Dana Freud acknowledged for education, teaching aid and training content design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the A' Design Award in the Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design category for Oneder Website by Dana Freud. The award was conferred within the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the A' Design Award Means
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
More About Oneder Website
Oneder is a cross-platform educational system for teachers and students with special needs. Teachers build customized lessons aligned to academic standards on a desktop application, and students complete the assignments on a tablet application at school or at home. Finished work is returned to the teachers as clear reports for each student and class. School administrators review the summarized results on a dashboard. Accessibility guided the design, so typography sizes, contrast and colors were carefully selected and tested with users.
About Dana Freud
Holds a bachelor's degree in industrial design from HIT academy. Lead product designer at XRHealth, VR/AR telehealth platform. Comes with a multi-year background in user experience design and interface design. Former editor in chief of the leading magazine in Israel "Pixel Perfect". Part of WE Israel's core group, a platform of support and promotion women of the UX community in Israel. Proud mother of two wonderful children.
Award Record
Dana Freud is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2019 - 2020 to 2020 - 2021 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design Award
The A' Education Design Award is an international competition recognizing good education products and projects by leading designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to education designers, teaching aid designers, training content creators and curriculum developers from all countries. Entries typically include textbooks, e-learning platforms, educational games, training manuals, instructional videos and interactive whiteboards. Awarded education designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/education
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/102510
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/102510
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!102510
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/264576
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://bit.ly/FreudOnder
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Oneder Website
- Function
- Website
- Category
- Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design
- Discipline
- Service Design
- Industry
- Education
- Colors
- Gainsboro, Black, Dark Salmon, Peru and Silver
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Dana Freud
- Country
- Israel
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #102510
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Oneder is a digital product for teachers and students with special needs, which enables teachers to build and share their own curriculum that is aligned to academic standards and suited to their individual students’ exclusive learning skills. Oneder's academic app enables the students to practice educational yet enjoyable tasks from their day-to-day situations. Conclusively, this platform presents the analyzed and quantitative data in an intuitive and efficient display for the school administrators.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration for this product came from interviews and observations of special needs students and their teachers. Knowing that special education teachers had little time to create a lesson assignment, it was necessary to design a clear, intuitive, and efficient interface. In addition, because the students were on a wide spectrum of disabilities, it was important for the product to be accessible, functional, and minimalistic as well as aesthetically and appealing.
- Research
- The research objective was to define the personas of the product and understand the accessibility standards. The methodology used was qualitative interviews with special needs teachers, psychologists, and school administrators. Data collection was done on 15/40 of the relevant population. Participants were special needs students and teachers and the key insights that there are three personas and three different platforms to consider. The results of the research created an empowering product for teachers and a powerful and meaningful tool for communicating with their students.
- Challenge
- The challenge for the student-designed product was to create a platform that had to comply with the most stringent accessibility regulations, since its users were on a wide spectrum of disability: from vision or hearing impairment to autism. Issues such as typography sizes, contrast, and color choices were carefully selected and followed by a number of user testings.
- Realization and Technology
- The methodology of "design thinking" was used to create several concepts which will serve the teachers in the most efficient and intuitive way. A group of four educators were included in several brainstorming sessions to generate the most accessible and varied solution for communication with the students.
- Operation and Interaction
- The product flow consists of three steps: First, the teachers create in the desktop app customized lessons for their students. Then, the students fill the assignments through their tablet app. The students perform the tasks at school or at home, and send the teachers the filled assignments. The teachers receive a report for each student and class, and the extensive data is summarized in a clear and efficient dashboard for the school administrators.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in December 2015 and finished in January 2017.
- Specifications
- Due to the fact that this is a cross-platform product, the dimensions and specifications are dynamic and responsive in that they automatically adjust to the screen size and type of device being used.
- Keywords
- educational design, UI, UX, website design, dashboard, tracking, data
