Redesigning Student Groups to Enable Social Learning at Scale
Turning groups into interactive learning hubs for students and teachers The Groups Redesign is a core mobile experience for Noon Academy, reimagined to support social learning, structured content, and daily interaction between students and teachers. The project focused on transforming groups from static content feeds into organized, activity-driven learning environments that scale across subjects, grades, and teaching styles.
As Noon Academy expanded rapidly, its group experience remained largely unchanged for over three years.
Groups had become overcrowded, hard to navigate, and interaction-heavy but poorly structured—impacting discoverability, engagement, and student satisfaction.
My Role | Senior Product Designer
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The Challenge
Groups mixed announcements, questions, content, and posts in one feed
Students struggled to understand course progress and structure
Teachers lacked tools to organize curriculum and activities
Non-members had insufficient context to decide whether to join
Social interaction existed but lacked structure and clarity
The Solution
We redesigned Groups as a dual-mode experience—balancing interaction and structured learning.
The experience was split into two clear states:
Non-member view, focused on discovery and decision-making
Member view, focused on learning, interaction, and progress
Groups were restructured around Feed (interaction) and Learn (content), allowing students to move seamlessly between social activity and curriculum progression.
Teachers gained better control over content organization, while students gained clarity, motivation, and a stronger sense of community.
Outcome
Improved clarity and usability across group interactions
Stronger separation between social activity and learning content
Higher discoverability of curriculum progress and sessions
Established a scalable foundation for future gamified and social features
