Hi, I am Yani. ☀️
A Learning Designer, an Instructional Designer, and a UX Researcher.
Studied Learning Design, Innovation, and Technology.
Always passionate about Educational Technology and Product Development.
My Work
2100
2100 is a children’s social gaming app, which educates kids on the concept of sustainability based on their real-world consumption habits to contribute to the building of digital environments and ecosystems, as well as to the betterment of the real-world environmental state. The goal of 2100 is to provide children with an informative understanding of how human consumption behavior impacts the world around them.
StoryTeller
StoryTeller is a hybrid digital and analog board game. The innovation aims to improve linguistic fluency and enhance cultural proficiency by leveraging the power of storytelling through well-known fables.
Digital Fabrication and Making in Education
Products & Games designed and made
at Harvard Graduate School of Education Maker Space.
Marvels of the World
Marvels of the World is a tablet app (designed with Figma) that students can use to be exposed to other languages and cultures in the world. We collaborated with the University Primary School in Champaign county in Illinois. The app is designed for a third-grade class with students from diverse cultural backgrounds.
HELLO
HELLO is a tablet app (designed with Figma) for higher grades elementary-aged children (9~12yr) who have mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The main goal of this app is to help children with autism develop social interaction skills.
By providing different scenarios that children may encounter in daily life, children could learn how to behave appropriately in social life. It also reduces children's fear of socializing since they can practice at home by using the app.
GO GO GEO
The game Go Go Geo encourages all kids around the ages of 8-10 to play the game and foster their world and cultural knowledge. We were hoping to specifically target children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds who may not get the opportunity to travel otherwise. We hope that children's learning adventures in Go Go Geo will help them increase their cultural awareness in a unique and fun way.
Series Game: 1.0 Our Language Story 2.0 The Language Hero
Our Language Story is a physical card game that exposes middle schoolers to different languages by letting them create stories in different languages as well as different settings, which uses the storytelling game mechanics.
The Language Hero is a digital game (made by Unity) that exposes players to different cultures by letting them select various representative cultural elements.
AROUND!
AROUND! is a game that can be played on both smartphones and laptops (designed with JustinMind). It provides abundant information for 5-7th graders who don’t have any knowledge background with water cycle to explore the whole phenomenon. It can also be used as a pre-lecture activity that prepares students before a lesson on the water cycle.
FoodAdvisor
FoodAdvisor is a mobile app to help people have a better dining experience. By using this app, users can navigate dining places, and doing social activities with other people based on interests in food. Users will be able to find friends and strangers to eat or order food together, it will be particularly helpful when people do not want to eat alone.
