August 2025
True Horizon Software
True Horizon Software
True Horizon Software
Overview: True Horizon builds custom AI solutions to support business growth. We designed an incubator platform where members can learn from the founders, share insights, and explore how AI can power their own ventures.
Collaborators: Sam Bridgman, Amelia Alfonso, Cole Abrams
My Role: UX Design Director
Overview: True Horizon builds custom AI solutions to support business growth. We designed an incubator platform where members can learn from the founders, share insights, and explore how AI can power their own ventures.
Collaborators: Sam Bridgman, Amelia Alfonso, Cole Abrams
My Role: UX Design Director
Objective
Objective
What's needed for the software
What's needed for the software
What's needed for the software
The stakeholder discussed:
A software similar to skool, where they can create learning tasks for members to use.
Chat features for sharing.
Gamification to encourage members to use the software.
Calendar for events for live lectures.
A social feed to post.
The stakeholder discussed:
A software similar to skool, where they can create learning tasks for members to use.
Chat features for sharing.
Gamification to encourage members to use the software.
Calendar for events for live lectures.
A social feed to post.
Strategy
Strategy
Collaboration, research, and mapping
Collaboration, research, and mapping
Collaboration, research, and mapping
Working as a team to understand how we want to layout the software, what can we do on the development, and how we will meet our six week deadline on time.
We started by conducting research on similar products, evaluating what's intuitive in these platforms.
Working as a team to understand how we want to layout the software, what can we do on the development, and how we will meet our six week deadline on time.
We started by conducting research on similar products, evaluating what's intuitive in these platforms.
We next laid a user map out featuring a feed, modules, chats, explore, calendar, leaderboard, and an admin dashboard for content management.
We next laid a user map out featuring a feed, modules, chats, explore, calendar, leaderboard, and an admin dashboard for content management.
Ideation
Ideation
Designing the interface
Designing the interface
Designing the interface
We began with low-fidelity wireframes to shape layout and navigation, ensuring smooth transitions across modules, events, and conversations.
We began with low-fidelity wireframes to shape layout and navigation, ensuring smooth transitions across modules, events, and conversations.
Outcomes
Outcomes
A digital campus delivered on time
A digital campus delivered on time
A digital campus delivered on time
We successfully launched the software on schedule with 15 initial users. Throughout the process, we refined our time management without cutting corners, delivering a polished product that empowers leaders and owners to engage, connect, and grow through curated learning experiences.
Feed
Modules
Leaderboard
Chat
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