UX Designer for improving access to education

We are looking for two to three volunteer UX Designers to create compelling user interfaces for Oppia, an educational platform that aims to make high-quality basic education accessible for everyone. The volunteers would help with researching, synthesizing, and designing web/mobile interfaces to make an engaging experience for young learners and to ease lesson creation for educators.

To be considered, you must complete the form here: https://forms.gle/PhCsG7ZLx68cwmX96

Who Are We?

The Oppia Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with the mission to provide high quality education to all. We do this through the creation and maintenance of our platform, Oppia (http://www.oppia.org), the coordination of our passionate contributors, and the development of critical partnerships with NGOs in the communities we aim to serve.

Even before COVID-19, students around the world were facing difficulties accessing quality education due to conflict, discrimination, lack of teacher training, and more. However, with COVID-19 forcing everyone to stay quarantined in their own homes, students now more than ever need access to free, quality education to ensure that they can continue to learn even if they cannot attend school.

Why Oppia is an Organization You Want to Work With

• Oppia has served over 2,000,000 users.
• Oppia’s current library consists of more than 2,000 lessons.
• Oppia focuses on effectiveness. Our continuous improvement process involves rigorous user testing and RCTs to ensure we create high quality educational materials catered to the needs of our most underserved global learners.
• Oppia has a community of hundreds of passionate volunteers from across the globe, so our meetings are held online at flexible times.

What our UX team contributes

Our UX design process is collaborative, and involves working together with other designers, product managers and developers. UX design volunteers will work closely with Oppia's design and development team to collaborate and iterate on mocks for the developers to implement. This also includes:

• Creating sketches and translating them into prototypes
• Communicating design ideas to technical contributors
• Providing and receiving constructive feedback

We also recommend that prospective volunteers have the following basic qualifications for this role:

• An understanding of UX/UI design principles (e.g. Design Systems, Accessibility, Material Design)
• Familiarity with design tools such as Adobe XD, Sketch, and/or Figma (We use Figma)

If you’d like to help out, please fill in our application form: https://forms.gle/PhCsG7ZLx68cwmX96 . Thank you!