Wilder: Capturing Learning Beyond the Classroom
Independent project
Workflow design / Activity tracking
Tracking homeschool activities, reading, field trips, and attendance.
Overview
Wilder is a homeschool tracking application that brings activities, field trips, reading, and attendance into one place. Drawing on personal experience, I designed the UX and visual interface to help parents capture everyday learning and build a useful record of each child’s school year.
The Challenge
Homeschool learning happens through lessons, books, sports, outings, and time outdoors. Parents need to document those experiences for multiple children without turning each day into an administrative task. The challenge was to make recording quick while keeping the accumulated information organized and useful later.
Context + Constraints
One activity may involve several children, while reading progress and attendance remain individual. Records need to support both everyday reference and end-of-year reporting. Because activities and field trips are dated, they can also inform attendance tracking without requiring parents to enter the same school day separately.
Key Design Decisions
The design combines shared activity entry with child-specific records. Parents can assign an experience to multiple children, reuse an existing activity, or create a new one while recording their day. Separate areas for activities, field trips, reading, and attendance keep each task focused, while a consistent navigation pattern connects them. Color and photography give the application a more personal, energetic character.
Implementation
I mapped the primary tasks and designed connected mobile screens for activity capture, filtering, field-trip photos and notes, reading lists, and attendance calendars. Reading records include book details, due dates, and completion status. Attendance and student portfolio reporting extend the captured information into records that can be saved as PDFs or printed.
The "So What"
The resulting design turns everyday entries into a broader record of each child’s learning. Dated activities and field trips support automatic attendance counting, while filters and child-specific views help parents retrieve past information. The key design takeaway is that recordkeeping becomes more useful when one entry can support several needs without repeated input.
Activity Log
The activity log is the core of Wilder. It brings lessons, sports, and time outdoors into a single dated list, while also making each student's portfolio creation and attendance tracking automatic processes. Parents can add an entry for one or more children, including their duration and any notes they want to remember.
Activitiy Log (continued)
Parents can filter activities by child, type, date, or notes to find a past entry. They can also choose a previously entered activity or add a new one while recording the day.
Field Trips
The field trip section combines photos and short written memories, giving families a place to capture learning that happens away from home, even on an ordinary outing.
Reading Log
Reading logs are organized by child, with separate lists for goals or seasons.
Reading Log (continued)
Each reading list shows its books and upcoming due dates. Individual book entries capture details such as the author, page count, cover, and completion status.
Attendance
Homeschool families often need to keep track of a required number of school days. Because Wilder dates each activity and field trip, it can count those days automatically and show each child’s progress in a simple calendar view.
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