Hi, I’m Ryan, a Senior UX Designer at PowerSchool, currently designing for the future of EdTech.
Naviance career and college profiles
Utilizing AI to transform the College, Career, and Life Readiness (CCLR) process for high school students by recommending college and career opportunities based off assessments, grades, trends, and more.
PowerSchool’s Design System: Neon
A robust design system that covers all EdTech users from elementary students to school admins.
Naviance staff dashboard
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Original homepage
The staff dashboard used by school counselors and administrators for over a decade. A lot of helpful tools, in an unorganized and outdated manner.
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New homepage
Through user interviews and stack ranking exercises, we created a more personal, actionable, and visually appealing dashboard for school staff.
I was lead UX designer on this in 2023.
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Customization
Users include a wide range of roles and their priorities change depending on the time of the school year. This gives users the ability to customize their dashboard to fit their needs at the time!
MyPowerHub: all-in-one solution for staying connected and informed
A single login, connecting multiple MFEs, that improves communication and engagement between K-12 schools and families.
Case study coming soon!
Reach out for a detailed walkthrough of this work - design@ryankrail.com
Last updated March 2025
More to come!
Firstly, thank you for visiting my website! I’m glad you’re here!
I have been hard at work the past four years as a Senior UX Designer at PowerSchool, leading UX on a number of our key initiatives including:
Using AI to transform the College, Career, and Life Readiness (CCLR) process for high school students
Managing our robust design system of 300+ components and being used by 25 different product teams
Creating a ‘single pane of glass’ dashboard experience for K-12 parents and staff that ties in a dozen different MFEs, eliminated the need for multiple logins to check important information like grades, school communications, and account balances.
With this exciting and busy workload, I have not devoted much time to this personal website. But I am actively working to gather designs and add detailed case studies.
In the meantime, if given the right opportunity to chat, I would be more than happy to walk you through some of my recent work, that hasn’t made it to my portfolio yet.
