Hi, I’m Jessi.

I’m a Senior UX Researcher with 4+ years of UX expertise, working across the end-to-end design process and specializing in UX for education.

Approach & Impact

Teacher’s Lounge Mobile App

I led end-to-end design research process and business vision for an edtech app aiming to reach over 2 million elementary educators, aiding them with burnout. I owned  the research roadmap for a teacher’s app targeting 44% of  stressed school educators, aiming to reduce educator churn, as 23% of educators leave teaching annually.

Austin Achieve Public Schools

I led design meetings and integrated feedback across cross-functional teams to improve learning outcomes for over 450 students, and improve educator training for 50+ educators in the school district. I coached and mentored 5 assistant principals to help them become more autonomous and improve learning outcomes and educator processes.

UX Case Studies

  • Reducing Burnout & Churn Across 2 Million Educators

    Teacher’s Lounge Mobile App: Discovery Research

    Teacher’s lounge aims to provide mental health resources for over 44% of educators who feel burned out in their jobs, causing 23% of educators to leave the workforce annually.

  • Analyzing 9 Competitor Apps to Design a Differentiated Educator Mobile App

    Teacher’s Lounge Mobile App: Wireframing & Prototyping

    Teacher's Lounge is a social solution designed for intuitive, user-centered interfaces. Prioritized ease of completion for a variety of creative mental health prompts using wireframes, prototyping and user testing.

  • Optimizing Educator Mobile App After 5 User Testing Sessions

    Teacher’s Lounge Mobile App: Usability Testing

  • Improving Student Mastery to over 80% after year 2 of Implementation

    Curriculum Adoption: Discovery Research & Implementation Blueprint

    Researched and developed curriculums for the school district, implementing curriculum changes and improvements across grades K-4. Created implementation roadmap for 40+ educators, impacting 800+ students.

  • Founded and Iterated Reading Intervention Program, Impacting 1500+ students to improve reading levels yearly

    Reading Intervention Program: Discovery Research, Implementation & Iteration

    Led end-to-end research processes and vision, integrated feedback across cross-functional teams to improve reading outcomes for students grades 1-8, scaling and improving the program over 9 years. Coached and mentored educators throughout implementation.

  • Building a Professional Development Blueprint to Reduce Stress and Build Content Knowledgefor 40+ Educators

    Professional Development: Discovery Research & Implementation Blueprint

    Led design and ideation workshops to build and direct summer intensive and year long professional development sessions. Created year long scope and sequence and sessions aligned to district, school-wide and educator goals.

Take a Look: View the Teacher’s Lounge Discovery Research process.

Teacher’s lounge aims to provide mental health resources for over 44% of educators who feel burned out in their jobs, causing 23% of educators to leave the workforce annually.