Client: BeLingual | London, UK

Industry: EdTech

Role: UX/UI Design

Year: 2025

BeLingual (formerly Learn to Learn) is a language education company that blends English learning with communication, soft skills, and multicultural awareness. Existing digital tools no longer support its interactive teaching approach, limiting engagement. The goal was to design a custom, interactive platform that enables real-time student submissions, and progress tracking, while being easy to use, scalable, and enhancing engagement for both teachers and students.

Overview

We conducted in-depth interviews with English teachers and students, including Learn to Learn instructors and learners, to understand challenges in remote classrooms and uncover key pain points in their teaching and learning journeys. One clear pattern emerged: teachers and students ultimately want the same things. Alongside interviews, we observed a live class to understand the real dynamics of teaching in practice. These insights mirrored the friction points already present in Learn to Learn’s workflow.

User Research

Solving the Problem

From Learn to Learn to BeLingual

Everything in One Teaching wasn’t just fragmented during the live lesson. The entire lifecycle of a class, including preparation, publishing, teaching, and review, was spread across multiple tools, increasing cognitive load for teachers and forcing students to juggle several platforms.

Everything in One Place

How things worked before

BeLingual was designed to collapse this fragmented flow into a single teaching and learning surface.

The Design Solution

In traditional online lessons, multiple windows and tools broke the natural flow of interaction and made it hard for teachers to see students. Embedding Zoom into the platform kept students’ faces visible alongside lesson content, maintaining eye contact, collaboration, and classroom rhythm.

Replicating the Physical Environment

In online classes, teachers often lack real-time awareness of how students are coping with the material. The existing emotional check-in felt vague and difficult to act on, offering little clarity for teachers. We redesigned this interaction into clear, actionable signals that students can share during the lesson. This gives teachers instant clarity, enables responsive teaching, and helps them support students in the moment while maintaining classroom connection.

Understanding Students’ Feelings

Teachers often lack a clear view of how students are developing over time. By tracking progress across classes, we make learning patterns visible, helping teachers spot who may be falling behind and adjust support before gaps widen. As part of the student profile, we designed a visual progress view that tracks skills over time, giving teachers immediate clarity.

Understanding Student Progress

A lack of visibility into each student’s goals, interests, and learning style makes tailoring lessons difficult. Personalization tools surface this information and suggest ways to adapt content, helping teachers target support, increase engagement, and meet students’ individual needs.

Personalization

Teachers often struggle to keep students engaged, and static content can leaves some students behind. Interactive and visual tools keep students involved, make concepts clearer, and maintain motivation. Features like quizzes and polls provide immediate engagement and help teachers gauge understanding in real time.

Making Topics More Engaging

Classroom Flow

Prepare the Class

Live Class

Conclusion

This project explored how teachers and students actually experience online language classes, uncovering friction across preparation, live teaching, and feedback. Instead of recreating existing tools, I reframed the experience into one coherent flow where everything lives in one place.

Each decision focused on reducing cognitive load and protecting teachers’ attention, through interactive activities, emotional check-ins, visible progress, and real-time insights.

The result is a single, intuitive platform that helps teachers stay present with their students and respond in the moment, without switching tools. This process taught me how deeply structure and flow shape attention, and how design can either fragment an experience or quietly hold it together.

Helping Teachers Help Their Students