DEAD! Death Education Assessment Drills
EdTech | B2C & B2B | Prod in 2024, 2025
Design a Jeopardy-Style game experience for college Mortuary School undergraduates.
DEAD! Death Education Assessment Drills
DEAD! Death Education Assessment Drills
DEAD! Death Education Assessment Drills
EdTech | B2C & B2B | Prod in 2024, 2025
EdTech | B2C & B2B | Prod in 2024, 2025
EdTech | B2C & B2B | Prod in 2024, 2025
Design a Jeopardy-Style game experience for college Mortuary School undergraduates.
Design a Jeopardy-Style game experience for college Mortuary School undergraduates.
Design a Jeopardy-Style game experience for college Mortuary School undergraduates.
This project was born from a unique niche: helping mortuary students prepare for their National Board Exams. I was asked to design an interactive Jeopardy-style quiz game that would live alongside traditional test and study tools.
Archer Systems was contracted in 2023 to build a custom portal for law firms and the judge presiding over the 3M Earplugs lawsuit. This portal needed to be a dashboard to keep track of every single claimant’s paperwork completion status involved in the class action lawsuit (280,000+ people).
Goals:
- Make studying feel more engaging and game-like
- Reinforce existing learning through gameplay
- Balance fun UI with the seriousness of the subject
- Design a reusable pattern for future game types
Goals:
- Make studying feel more engaging and game-like
- Reinforce existing learning through gameplay
- Balance fun UI with the seriousness of the subject
- Design a reusable pattern for future game types
Goals:
- Make studying feel more engaging and game-like
- Reinforce existing learning through gameplay
- Balance fun UI with the seriousness of the subject
- Design a reusable pattern for future game types
The biggest challenge was tone. The content is serious—embalming, ethics, and anatomy—so we needed a light, non-distracting game experience. I kept the board familiar but modern, ensuring students could jump right in.
The biggest challenge was tone. The content is serious—embalming, ethics, and anatomy—so we needed a light, non-distracting game experience. I kept the board familiar but modern, ensuring students could jump right in.
Understanding a very specific industry is such a short time was an awesome challenge to approach. Early wireframes and feedback helped solidify the data needed and displayed correctly on the screens. Upon the first round of user research, we expanded the solution to include data driven suggesting, or "Smart Recommendations". After the second round of testing, we were able to more clearly define and solve for the business goals portion of the software.
The biggest challenge was tone. The content is serious—embalming, ethics, and anatomy—so we needed a light, non-distracting game experience. I kept the board familiar but modern, ensuring students could jump right in.
I also created the system that lets instructors generate unique game boards by pulling from their assigned topics. This customization helps align classroom learning with independent studying.
I also created the system that lets instructors generate unique game boards by pulling from their assigned topics. This customization helps align classroom learning with independent studying.
Outcomes:
Students reported higher retention when using the game versus traditional flashcards.
Students reported higher retention when using the game versus traditional flashcards.
Students reported higher retention when using the game versus traditional flashcards.
Students reported higher retention when using the game versus traditional flashcards.
Instructors began requesting the game format for live classroom use.
Instructors began requesting the game format for live classroom use.
Instructors began requesting the game format for live classroom use.
Additional game modes are now in planning, including Match and Elimination-style tournaments.
Additional game modes are now in planning, including Match and Elimination-style tournaments.
Additional game modes are now in planning, including Match and Elimination-style tournaments.
If you'd like to see more work, or the Figma prototypes for any of these projects please contact me.
If you'd like to see more work, or the Figma prototypes for any of these projects please contact me.
If you'd like to see more work, or the Figma prototypes for any of these projects please contact me.