Dhrishty Dhanwani

Lumeno AI

Lumeno AI’s all-in-one platform helps students in universities throughout North America in learning, practicing, and reviewing class materials. It launched with 1000+ licences bought by reputable universities in Canada in just one week.

Product Design Intern

Tony Liu, Kellie Ho, Nathan Law, David Theophine

Figma, FigJam, Microsoft Clarity, Google Analytics 4

July 2025 - August 2025

Context

Evolving the Scope

I was initially brought in to redesign Lumeno’s web dashboard around three new AI-powered learning features: Study Recap Generator, Study Guide Generator, and Practice Guide Generator. As the project progressed, the team realized the same experience would eventually need to support a future mobile app. This shifted my role from adding features to the existing website to restructuring the underlying user flow so it could scale across both web and mobile platforms.

Challenges

Primary Challenge

The original experience made it difficult for students to understand where to begin, such as the unclear difference between Study and Course Practice Guide, uploading documents before interacting with the product which created unnecessary friction.

Secondary Challenge

The product had no centralized Figma source of truth or design system.

At the same time, I needed to design a flow that would work for both the current web product and a planned mobile app, then rethink navigation, feature hierarchy, and lastly, the interaction patterns.

Ideation

Competitor Research and Benchmarking

To design the mobile experience, I conducted competitive UX research across products that successfully guide users through complex content workflows.

I analyzed:

Duolingo for onboarding progression, motivation, and conversational interactions
PDF viewer applications for document reading and annotation patterns
Google Drive for file organization, upload flows, and content accessibility

To design the mobile experience, I conducted competitive UX research across products that successfully guide users through complex content workflows.

I analyzed:

Duolingo for onboarding progression, motivation, and conversational interactions
PDF viewer applications for document reading and annotation patterns
Google Drive for file organization, upload flows, and content accessibility

These references helped me identify how students could move between courses, upload materials, review PDFs, and generate study resources with micro interactions that wouldn't leave the user feeling overwhelmed.

A major focus was the onboarding experience. Since the original product required users to upload documents before understanding its value, I designed a completely new onboarding flow that introduced the app through guided conversational prompts, feature previews, and clear study outcomes before requesting any files. The onboarding was fully designed from scratch, including the user journey, screen flow, visual direction, and interaction patterns.

The onboarding was fully designed from scratch, including the user journey, screen flow, visual direction, and interaction patterns.

Solution

Mobile App Experience

For the mobile app, I created the experience from the ground up rather than adapting the existing website.

This included:

New app branding and visual identity
A custom onboarding flow designed from scratch
Chat-first study interactions
PDF viewing and document management patterns inspired by familiar productivity tools
Simplified navigation optimized for quick study sessions

The onboarding became a key part of the redesign because it allowed students to understand the product’s value before committing to uploading study materials, significantly reducing the initial friction present in the original web experience.

For the mobile app, I created the experience from the ground up rather than adapting the existing website.

This included:

New app branding and visual identity
A custom onboarding flow designed from scratch
Chat-first study interactions
PDF viewing and document management patterns inspired by familiar productivity tools
Simplified navigation optimized for quick study sessions

Website Experience

For the website, I added and integrated the new AI learning features into the dashboard through a new side navigation bar, reorganized the information hierarchy to reduce dead clicks and clarify feature purpose, and lastly, I created a complete Figma archive of the existing product, giving the team a structured reference for future iterations.

Impact

What changed after?

The redesigned mobile experience became a key asset for communicating Lumeno’s product vision. The app designs were used to demonstrate the future mobile experience to potential partners and institutions.

The concepts contributed to securing 1,000+ license requests from leading Canadian universities. And the project also provided the company with its first structured Figma-based product design foundation, making future collaboration and iteration significantly easier.

30%

Fewer average misclicks

Faster Access to Core Tools

30%

Higher app discoverability

1000+

Licenses requested

Reflection

And lastly….

This project taught me that UX problems are often workflow problems rather than screen problems.

What began as a feature integration task became an exercise in information architecture, cross-platform thinking, and product scalability. I learned the importance of designing around a user’s natural mental model and study behavior, rather than simply organizing features by technical functionality.