Oracle Think.com

Learning Platform

Background

Think.com was an early web-based learning platform designed to give students a shared space to create, publish, and learn together. Long before social media or cloud classrooms, the project explored how a distributed system could support learning as a collective, visible activity rather than a private exchange between student and teacher.

My Role

My role at Oracle began with an interview by the development team and a walkthrough of an early prototype. As they walked me through the user experience, I found myself counting the steps before a student could create something. After nearly 20 steps, I stopped the demo and asked, “This is for middle school kids?” The issue was clear – students needed to quickly reach an “aha” moment, a feeling of accomplishment, or the experience would fail.

With a background in motion graphics, technical skills, and an analytical mindset, I was offered the role that day to lead the design experience (and later promoted to lead product direction). This project launched my career in UX design and shaped my approach to structuring complex systems around meaningful moments of use.