Our edtech UI/UX design services plan and design the screens learners and course authors use: the learner dashboard, course player, course builder, progress and badges, and the mobile learning app. One senior team takes a learning platform or learning management system (LMS) from idea to tested, developer-ready Figma designs.
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In shortEdtech UI/UX design services shape the user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) of a learning platform, from the learner dashboard and course player to the course builder that course authors use. They are part of our digital product design services. A full edtech engagement runs 8–16 weeks, costs $60,000–$180,000, and ends with tested Figma designs your engineers build.
Edtech UI/UX design services plan how learners move through a learning platform (UX) and design the screens they and course authors use (UI), from the learner dashboard to the mobile app.
This work is part of our digital product design services and draws on the senior team behind our UI UX design services. As an edtech design agency, we design the learner and author screens, and your engineers build them from annotated Figma files, design tokens and component specs. The Elia Wellness dashboard pictured shows that output for a wellness learning platform.
Our learning platform design covers 6 parts of the product that learners and course authors use, each drawn in every screen state: default, loading, empty, error and completed.
The next lesson, today's progress and weekly course stats show at a glance, as on the Today's Progress card and weekly course stats chart we designed for Elia.
One lesson view mixes video, text, images and challenges from the online course, with clear next and back controls, so learners keep their place in the lesson.
Course authors build lessons and course modules from blocks such as text, images, video and challenges, a logged-in tool our web app design services cover.
Gamification, the use of game-style rewards in a learning product, should pay for finished lessons, not clicks. On Elia, lessons unlock bucket-list items such as seeing a sunrise, so learner badges mark real progress.
Sign-up, the first lesson and a pre-course questionnaire, like the personal growth questionnaire Elia learners fill in on a phone or a tablet.
Lessons and challenges on iOS and Android, with touch targets of 44×44 pt on iOS and 48×48 dp on Android, as in our mobile app UI UX design services.
Edtech UX design has to keep learners motivated over weeks on a learning platform, serve buyers who are not the users, and work for every age and ability.
Learner motivation comes from finishing the course, so progress tracking and badges reward completed lessons, not taps. A streak that rewards opening the app teaches learners to open it, not to learn.
Learners, course authors and administrators each get their own dashboard and permissions, plus parents or teachers when children use the product. Platforms sold to institutions as software as a service (SaaS) share admin and role patterns with our SaaS UI UX design work.
Elia's older adults had very different comfort levels with technology, so its pre-course questionnaire uses large touch targets and simple rating scales. Our usability testing services can check such patterns with your own learners.
Public schools and universities buy learning platforms against Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) accessibility rules, and products for children under 13 need parental consent before they collect a child's personal information. The standards list further down names each rule and the screen it changes.
For Elia Wellness, a wellness LMS, our edtech design services took the learning platform from idea to product, and the platform reports 40% growth in user registrations.
Elia, a wellness initiative by the Sydney Adventist Church, wanted a learning platform for older adults based on its book Live More. Scope: "idea to product, strategy, web app, mobile app and website." It centers on a social feed, a wellness score across 7 dimensions, block-based online courses, badges and progress monitoring. The platform reports a "30+ boost in wellness scores among active users." Read the Elia Wellness case study.
Our edtech UI/UX design services take a learning platform from discovery to developer handoff in 8–16 weeks (40–80 working days) and 5 steps.
Stakeholder workshops set the user groups (learners, course authors and administrators), the core learning loop and success metrics such as course completion. Our guide explains what a discovery phase settles before screens.
Researchers interview 5–8 users per user group, such as learners and course authors, to find where onboarding, lessons and progress tracking lose learners. These learner interviews shape every later flow.
The team maps the course structure (courses, course modules and lessons), the learner onboarding flow and the author's publishing flow before any screen is drawn.
Five learners per round complete tasks in a clickable Figma prototype on Maze, and each round ends with a usability score, so prototype rounds catch friction before engineering starts.
Designers finish every screen state and hand annotated Figma files, design tokens and component specs to your engineers, at WCAG 2.2 level AA. After the developer handoff, the designers stay with your engineers through launch.
Edtech UX design decides how learners find, take and track courses on a learning platform; instructional design decides what each online course teaches and in what order. An edtech UI UX design agency tests prototypes with learners before engineering starts, while instructional designers shape the lessons. The table compares both disciplines.
| Criterion | Edtech UI/UX design | Instructional design |
|---|---|---|
| Main question | How do learners find, take and track each online course? | What does each online course teach, and in what order? |
| Inputs | Learner research, course author workflows and analytics | Learning objectives and subject-matter experts |
| Outputs | Flows, prototypes, UI screens and component specs in Figma | Course outlines, lesson scripts and assessments |
| Validation | Prototype rounds with 5 learners per round on Maze | Learning outcomes and assessment results |
| When to hire | Learners get lost, drop out of the course player, or course authors struggle with the course builder | The course content itself is unclear or does not teach what learners need |
| Who does it | Our senior design team, as on Elia Wellness | Your instructional designers or course authors; we do not write curriculum |
Edtech UI/UX design services cost $60,000–$180,000 over 8–16 weeks for a full learning platform, or $25,000–$60,000 over 4–8 weeks for a design sprint.
A full edtech engagement uses 3–6 designers; a design sprint uses 2–4, and edtech design services for one surface, for example the course player, run as a sprint. Price follows 4 factors: target platforms (web app, iOS and Android), user groups, core user flows such as onboarding, and validation rounds. A UX audit of a live learning platform costs $5,000–$15,000 over 2–3 weeks through our UX audit services.
Five accessibility and privacy standards shape edtech UX design for learning platforms, and each one changes what learners see on screen. We design to these standards; legal compliance and certification stay with the product owner.
Heuristic review, analytics, and usability findings turned into a prioritized fix list.
02Moderated studies, concept validation, and A/B testing that catch problems before they ship.
03Strategy, UX, UI, and validation from one team that stays through launch.
04Website UX and UI built around clear structure and conversion.
05Research-led UX and polished UI for iOS and Android apps.
06Information architecture, workflows, and UI for complex web applications.
Book a 45-minute UX audit session. We review your product and identify the top three friction points.
Book a UX auditBefore a learning platform team hires an edtech UX design partner, five questions settle the fit: past LMS work, who writes the code, live redesigns, children's products and the website.
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Talk to a design leadYes. For Elia Wellness, a wellness LMS for adults 50+, we took the learning platform from idea to product across web app, mobile app and website. It is our one published edtech project, and the platform reports 40% growth in user registrations.
No. Our designers deliver annotated Figma files, design tokens and component specs, and your engineers write the code. Your team also handles e-learning content standards such as SCORM and integrations with other systems.
Yes. Start with a UX audit of the live learning platform, $5,000–$15,000 over 2–3 weeks, that reviews onboarding, the course player and the course builder against usability heuristics and analytics, with a WCAG 2.2 level AA check. Its prioritized fix roadmap then scopes a design sprint.
Yes. E-learning platform UX design for children follows the same 5 steps, and learner onboarding adds a COPPA parental consent step, with sign-up asking only for the data lessons need. Our published edtech work so far is Elia, which serves older adults, so we do not claim children's products as past work.
Yes. Edtech website design for the marketing site that leads learners into the platform runs through our UI UX web design practice. Elia's scope covered its website as well as the web app and mobile app.
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