Accepting New EdTech UI Design Projects
EdTech UI/UX DESIGN SERVICES
Are Your Students Dropping Out Early? Let's Fix Your Learning Platform.
Hi, I am Samir Thakare. As a professional UI/UX designer based in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India, I partner with online academies, universities, and growing SaaS platforms. I specialize in designing ultra-clean, intuitive EdTech experiences that reduce student frustration, boost course completion rates, and turn casual learners into loyal subscribers.
⚠️ Balancing limited design slots for new clients this quarter.
15+
Years of Experience
Delivering premium interface design, learner experience strategy, and retention optimization for educational platforms.
100+
Platforms Completed
A proven track record of designing successful learning management systems (LMS), corporate training portals, and mobile study apps.
ROI
Outcome-First Focus
Crafting intuitive learning environments that make it incredibly easy for students to find courses and complete their lessons.
Quick Overview
What Are EdTech UI/UX Design Services?
What exactly is this service?
This service is the process of designing the complete learning journey for your educational software. I focus on optimizing course discovery, dashboard navigation, interactive lesson pages, and creating a seamless student onboarding flow using proven UX principles.
Who urgently needs this service?
EdTech founders, university IT heads, and corporate training managers whose current platforms attract learners but suffer from low engagement, poor completion rates, or high subscription cancellations.
Why is custom UX vital for learners?
Digital learners lose focus quickly. If your platform structure is confusing, or the video player requires too many clicks, they will log out and use a competitor like Udemy. A professionally designed LMS builds immediate trust and makes learning effortless.
What tangible outcomes do you get?
You receive developer-ready Figma blueprints containing responsive designs for desktop and mobile devices. The ultimate outcome is a beautiful, trustworthy platform built specifically to maximize your student retention and course sales.
Free LMS Review
Is Your Platform Leaking Users? Request an Audit.
Do you already have a live learning platform that struggles to keep students active? Let me take a look. I will review your current user experience and point out 3 immediate layout mistakes that are causing learners to quit halfway.
↳ Claim Your Free LMS Audit
Core Obstacles
Why Is Your Platform Losing Students?
A poorly structured online academy kills motivation. Here are the common business challenges my EdTech UI/UX design services resolve.
Are Students Dropping Out Early?
Learners sign up, but your dashboard is too cluttered, hides their progress, or makes the next lesson hard to find. They get overwhelmed and simply stop logging in.
Is Course Discovery Broken?
Your library is disorganized and your search filter is confusing. If visitors cannot quickly locate the specific certification or topic they need, they will bounce to another site.
Is the Mobile Experience Clunky?
Most modern students learn on the go via smartphones. If your video player overlaps text, or quizzes are impossible to tap on mobile, you are actively frustrating your biggest audience.
Measurable Value
What Strategic Advantages Do We Build?
Will More Students Finish Courses?
By streamlining the lesson flow and introducing clear progress tracking, we make it completely effortless and rewarding for users to complete their curriculum.
Will Subscription Renewals Increase?
We strategically design engaging gamification and personalized dashboard recommendations, encouraging learners to naturally renew their subscriptions and start new subjects.
Will Your Platform Look Premium?
A modern, bespoke LMS design with soft gradients, clean typography, and visible educator credentials immediately signals to buyers that your academy is an industry authority.
Expertise Depth
What Custom UI Solutions Do You Need?
Need Custom LMS UI Design?
Bespoke visual interface designs tailored to your academy's brand identity. Perfect for educational businesses upgrading from generic software to a highly professional, custom learning layout.
Need Onboarding Optimization?
Deep UX analysis and redesign of your signup and first-day learning experience to remove friction, integrate tooltips, and dramatically lower your day-one drop-off rates.
Need a Mobile Learning App?
Mobile-first UI/UX design ensuring your study material looks beautiful and functions flawlessly on all smartphones, capturing the largest segment of busy, modern students.
Need an EdTech UX Audit?
A rigorous review of your currently live software to map usability friction hotspots, layout flaws, and navigation issues holding back your overall platform growth.
My Framework
How Do We Redesign Your EdTech Platform?
1. What Are Your Learning Goals? (Discovery)
We kick off by understanding your curriculum, target student demographics, and primary retention goals. I align the design strategy directly with your educational outcomes.
2. How Do Your Students Behave? (Research)
I analyze top EdTech competitors and current psychological best practices to map out a clear, logical learning journey, ensuring users find focus and clarity.
3. How Do We Structure the Flow? (Wireframing)
I organize your course modules and create low-fidelity wireframes to establish the placement of video players, quizzes, and progression buttons before adding colors.
4. What Will the Premium UI Look Like? (High-Fidelity)
I transform the wireframes into stunning, ultra-clean visual designs in Figma. We apply soft gradients, engaging typography, and establish a premium academic aesthetic.
5. How Can We Test It? (Interactive Prototyping)
I provide a clickable prototype so you can review how the dashboard will feel and function on desktop and mobile devices, ensuring the learning process is perfectly smooth.
6. How Do Developers Build It? (Handoff)
I package your final design files cleanly. I include a clear style guide, making it incredibly easy for your developers to build the platform on React, WordPress LMS, or custom tech stacks.
Proven Portfolio
What Results Have We Achieved in EdTech?
↳ SaaS LMS Dashboard Refactor
Outcome: Course Completion Jumped by 32%
Client Challenge: A growing technical boot camp had high enrollments but lost over 60% of students due to a complex, multi-layered dashboard layout.
Solution Provided: Redesigned the experience into a distraction-free lesson interface, adding clear gamification badges and prominent "Continue Learning" buttons.
Outcome Achieved: The simplified, clean layout removed cognitive load, directly increasing daily active usage and graduation rates.
Solution Provided: Redesigned the experience into a distraction-free lesson interface, adding clear gamification badges and prominent "Continue Learning" buttons.
Outcome Achieved: The simplified, clean layout removed cognitive load, directly increasing daily active usage and graduation rates.
↳ B2B Corporate Training Portal
Outcome: Admin Setup Time Reduced by 50%
Client Challenge: An enterprise training company's manager portal was disorganized, making it difficult for HR teams to assign courses to new hires.
Solution Provided: Restructured the information architecture, introduced bulk-assignment features, and designed a 'quick-view' analytics table for HR admins.
Outcome Achieved: Corporate clients could onboard employees in seconds, dramatically increasing contract renewals and lowering support tickets.
Solution Provided: Restructured the information architecture, introduced bulk-assignment features, and designed a 'quick-view' analytics table for HR admins.
Outcome Achieved: Corporate clients could onboard employees in seconds, dramatically increasing contract renewals and lowering support tickets.
↳ Language Learning Mobile App
Outcome: Daily Engagement Jumped by 45%
Client Challenge: A language academy had great desktop retention, but their mobile study app was clunky, with tiny quiz buttons and slow audio files.
Solution Provided: Created a highly interactive, mobile-first design system with large tap targets, swipeable flashcards, and a dark-mode study environment.
Outcome Achieved: The fast, app-native experience led to a massive surge in daily streaks and micro-learning sessions from smartphone users.
Solution Provided: Created a highly interactive, mobile-first design system with large tap targets, swipeable flashcards, and a dark-mode study environment.
Outcome Achieved: The fast, app-native experience led to a massive surge in daily streaks and micro-learning sessions from smartphone users.
↳ University Course Catalog Redesign
Outcome: Enrollment Queries Dropped 35%
Client Challenge: Complex syllabus documents and prerequisite rules were hidden on department pages, causing students to constantly email advisors.
Solution Provided: Redesigned the program detail pages to highlight key requirements immediately below the title, utilizing clean iconography and accordions.
Outcome Achieved: Prospective students found all the academic details they needed instantly, increasing confident applications and freeing up advisors.
Solution Provided: Redesigned the program detail pages to highlight key requirements immediately below the title, utilizing clean iconography and accordions.
Outcome Achieved: Prospective students found all the academic details they needed instantly, increasing confident applications and freeing up advisors.
Direct Partnership
Who Will Be Your Design Partner?
I am Samir Thakare, an independent UI/UX designer and strategic EdTech consultant based in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. Across the last 15+ years, I have rejected slow agency processes to collaborate directly with startup founders, SaaS academies, and local universities.
My focus centers entirely on clarity, cognitive ease, and learning optimization. When you hire me, you get a seasoned expert managing every wireframe grid, layout decision, and Figma design asset personally. I remove agency middlemen to secure rapid project execution, transparent communication, and premium consulting built to scale your educational business.
FAQFrequently
Frequently
Asked Questions
My services include understanding your learner profiles, planning course categorization (information architecture), mapping out a frictionless study flow, designing high-fidelity UI screens, and creating a scalable design system for your developers.
Generic templates often have hidden usability flaws that kill focus. A specialized UI/UX designer understands student psychology, cognitive load reduction, and builds a custom experience that maximizes engagement and minimizes drop-offs.
I provide the strategic UI/UX design files in Figma. Your development team can take my structured designs and build the academy on custom React stacks, Moodle, Thinkific, Teachable, or custom WordPress LMS frameworks.
The cost depends on the size of your curriculum and the complexity of user dashboards (e.g., student vs. teacher portals). A single-course creator needs a different investment than a massive university portal. I provide transparent quotes after our initial discovery call.
A standard, high-converting EdTech design project usually takes between 4 to 8 weeks. This timeline ensures we conduct proper research, wireframe the lesson structure, design the visual interface, and prepare clear developer handoff files.
Your engineers will receive neatly organized, production-ready Figma source files. This includes desktop and mobile responsive layouts, a comprehensive UI kit (colors, fonts, accessible buttons), and interactive click-through prototypes.
I focus strictly on EdTech product strategy, UX research, wireframing, and premium visual UI design. I do not provide coding services. However, I ensure my designs are highly developer-friendly and guide your tech team during implementation.
Yes, I am an independent UI/UX consultant based in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. I work directly with academy founders and corporate training leaders globally, providing fast, high-quality execution.
I work smoothly with school leaders across the US, UK, Europe, and the Middle East. We use tools like Slack for quick daily updates and Google Meet or Zoom for our main milestone review calls, handling time zones efficiently.
Absolutely. I highly recommend starting with a UX audit for existing platforms. I will identify the exact pages where students drop off and point out immediate layout fixes to improve your current completion rates before we start a full redesign.
We review the design at key milestones, such as wireframing and initial visual mockups. This structured revision process ensures we stay aligned with your pedagogical vision and engagement targets without causing project delays.
Simply book a free discovery call through this page. We will discuss your current academy, your target students, and how a professional UI/UX design can help you multiply your online retention.
Let's Build It
Ready to Maximize Student Engagement?
Get in touch today to discuss your educational goals, fix platform bottlenecks, and secure an optimized EdTech design built to grow your academy.
↳ me@heysamir.com