My Role
Unigo is a long-standing education platform helping students navigate college planning and scholarships. As the sole product designer, I led the design of Unigo’s first mobile app MVP, translating a legacy web experience into a modern, mobile-first product built specifically for high school students. The work focused on reducing friction, revamping the brand while staying within guidelines, improving clarity around scholarship management, and meeting students where they already are—on their phones.
Highlights
Led end-to-end design of Unigo’s first mobile app MVP, modernizing a legacy education platform
Redesigned the core dashboard across web and mobile, improving usability and reducing friction
Designed a mobile-first experience that allows students to track scholarship status and receive push notifications at key milestones
Owned product strategy, UX flows, and UI design from concept through MVP launch
Website dashboard, used as the basis for how the mobile app would look.
Easy at-a-glance view to see an overall look of students progress in their scholarship journey.
With a main focus on scholarships everything was geared towards finding a scholarship.
To give scholarships more visibility we added personalized recommendations.
While researching competitor sites we realized that there was a key piece missing; letting students know where they are in their scholarship process. Introducing application status was a gamechanger for students and reduced support tickets dramatically.
Toaster & button tap micro interactions
App splash from iOS store
Signup into main app.
Early dashboard explorations
Design problems I wanted to address
Make complex processes like scholarships easier and more approachable
Create consistency across product, marketing, and print to strengthen trust and usability
Build an academic-focused identity that stood apart from entertainment-driven platforms
Challenges
No existing design system, which meant establishing core patterns and components from scratch
Inconsistent use of brand guidelines across the site, requiring clarification and alignment during the redesign
Shifting priorities and competing work streams while pushing the app MVP forward
Balancing design goals with developer bandwidth and technical constraints
Walnut Creek, CA