FilippoCaliendo

A digital assessment system for iSchoolAfrica's partner schools: Programme Managers create the tests on macOS, and students (from Grade R to high school, some on the first device of their lives) complete them on iPad, even offline. On one side, users with low digital literacy; on the other, two platforms with their own established rules: when to follow them, and when to bend them to the user? I led research, UX and UI across the entire flow, prototyping the critical interactions directly in code and validating them in the field in Johannesburg.

A fine motor exercise used in dysgraphia therapy: effective, but repetitive enough to lose a child's focus. Pinch It! turns it into a game. The challenge: make it engaging without diluting its clinical value. How far can you gamify a therapeutic exercise before it stops healing? I led research, UX and UI across the whole flow, from clinicians to children in the classroom, prototyping the hand recognition directly in Xcode and validating the finished product with a neuropsychomotor therapist.