Overview of Ungrade

Many college students struggle to gauge their skill development and career readiness.

To address this gap, Stanford Professor Daniel Martin founded Arete Science and developed Ungrade, a platform that enables students to track and measure their progress in real time, receive personalized feedback, and focus on the skills essential for their career paths.

Problem Space Identified Before the Redesign

Several critical issues with the Ungrade platform were discovered through comprehensive research, described in detail further below. Key issues included:

Navigation difficulty and an unintuitive design
Outdated visuals and graphics that cluttered the interface
The core functionality—helping students assess competencies relative to job roles—was not functional

Project Constraints

Our redesign had to work within the assessment framework established by Professor Martin’s research, which included Tier Assessments based on the Department of Labor’s Competency Model and psychometric IPIP assessments to test course-based skills.

Our limitations required us to maintain usability without altering the core research structure.

My Role on the Team

One of four UX Designers
Contributed to the team’s full desktop redesign, and continued solo on the mobile design per client request
Focused on uncovering pain points through a platform audit, usability testing, and creating low and high fidelity designs for the dashboard, assessment, and occupational map pages