Project Overview

Academic Project - 2025

My Role: UX/UI Designer | UX Researcher | Graphic Designer

Skills: Interaction design, UX Design, UI Design, UX Research

Time spend: 36 weeks

Academic graduation project in Graphic Design at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), developed in collaboration with special education teachers and low-vision specialists who work with children in public schools and specialized support centers.

My roles:

I worked end-to-end as UX/UI Designer and UX Researcher, responsible for:

• Planning and conducting desk research on low vision, visual literacy and digital accessibility

• Running interviews and field studies with teachers and specialists

• Synthesizing insights into personas, requirements and design principles

• Designing information architecture, flows, wireframes and UI

• Building interactive prototypes for testing

• Planning and moderating usability evaluations with specialists and visually impaired users

• Documenting the process and outcomes in the graduation thesis

Project Summary:

Children with low vision often rely only on specialized centers for visual stimulation. Visio proposes a mobile interface with playful exercises for children and a companion area for educators to select activities and track progress, translating medical and pedagogical guidelines into a simple, accessible product.

The Challenge

How might we extend visual stimulation beyond specialized centers in a way that is:

• usable by children, teachers and families,

• aligned with low-vision accessibility guidelines,

• and simple enough to work in public-school contexts with limited resources?

Solution

I followed a human-centered design process:

• Desk research, interviews and analysis of existing tools;

• Definition of user profiles, requirements and accessibility principles;

• Design of a two-sided interface (Child mode + Educator mode), flows, wireframes and high-fidelity UI;

• Prototype testing with specialists and visually impaired users, iterating on contrast, layout and feedback.

Results

• Project approved with top grade (100/100) as my graduation thesis.

• Specialists considered Visio a promising way to connect families, schools and specialized care.

• The final prototype and thesis document deliver design guidelines for future implementation and extended testing with real users.