January - May 2023

Cisco

Project Overview

Team

  • Brookley Rigsbee

  • Zach Nahorski

  • Maira Mansoor

  • Shree Sathiyan

  • Gianna Maihofer

  • Kara Pearson

  • Max Kowalski

  • Ella VanderMolen

My Role

  • ideation

  • sketching

  • wireframes

  • prototyping

  • interviews

  • user testing

  • final presentation

Problem Space


Cisco U is a personalized online learning platform intended to prepare

people to have the knowledge they need to acquire new certifications.

Our focus on this project was to take the desktop learning platform and

adapt it for a mobile platform while also adding new features that

specifically cater to the mobile learning experience.

User Group


We focused on one of Cisco’s user personas:

a young adult who is new to their professional career and

is looking to gain new skills or improve their current skills.


We chose this persona because it was most similar to our interviewees,

and it integrates well into the idea of Cisco U mobile. Since these people

are employed and commuting to work, they have a bit of downtime

during their commute that could easily be used for mobile learning.

My Personal Goals



  • improve professional communication skills

  • improve UI design skills

  • learn more about how the UX Design process works in industry

Helps the user create a plan and stick to it; makes learning achievable

Final Design Overview


Calendar view

Allows the user to visualize their study plan and effectively manage their time


I helped champion the Goal Setting section of the app