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Khora
Foundational discovery for an open-source multimedia philosophy platform, serving audiences from tenured academics to digital artists.
- Company
- Palinode Productions
- Role
- Discovery lead
- Period
- 2024
- On this site
- Khora
The challenge
Khora is an open-source multimedia philosophy platform. Its audience ranges from tenured academics to digital artists, people who learn in fundamentally different ways. I owned the foundational discovery work.
Research
I ran user interviews and built four personas that captured those different ways of learning.
Information architecture
I designed and facilitated a card-sorting study. I analyzed the results quantitatively (co-occurrence, participant agreement, outliers) and qualitatively (the reasoning behind the groupings), and turned both into a standardization grid.
I then validated the resulting structure through tree testing and refined it before any screens were built.
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