Making career exploration and postsecondary planning simple, personalized, and accessible.
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.
TL;DR
Problem
Students struggle with informed college and career decisions due to the confusing and overwhelming amount of information available. Additionally, school counselors often face high student-to-counselor ratios, making it difficult to provide personalized guidance to every student in a timely manner.
Solution
An AI-driven tool designed to assist students with career exploration, college matching, and application guidance. It provides a user-friendly conversational interface that offers personalized recommendations, insights into job demand, salaries, and postsecondary plans.
How it got done
Our AI tool leverages national data sets and student data from assessments, classwork, and counselor notes to empower students with crucial decision-making information. It allows students to explore career options, find college matches, and receive application support efficiently, ultimately optimizing counselor time while ensuring students receive the guidance they need.
36% of high school students in the US rely on Naviance CCLR for college research, career exploration, and future planning
Team
Lead product manager
Lead UX designer (me!)
UX writers
UX researchers
Leadership - for approval
Tools
Figma - UX design
Miro + Lucidspark - Ideation
Dovetail - UX research and documentation
Jira
Timeline
Fall 2024 - Present
AI-powered PowerBuddy for college and career support
Support students in career and college exploration with a conversational AI assistant
Allows students to get relevant insights, answers, and information from industry- recognized and trusted data sources
Answers questions about colleges, careers, majors, and more.
AI generated videos for career information consumption
Designed to introduce students to every career we have in Naviance.
On every career profile page, students can access a 2–3-minute career overview video.
Videos will include important career information, such as skills and education requirements, average salary, and what students can do to learn more.
More to come!
I have been hard at work the past four years as a Senior UX Designer at PowerSchool, so 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, reach out to me and I would love to go into these projects in more depth, including my role, my process, challenges faced, research done, impact, and so much more!