Tatiana is a Lebanese designer and skilled photographer. Growing up in Beirut, she developed a fluency in three languages (English, French and Arabic) and is now learning her fourth (Spanish). After receiving her BFA in Graphic Design, she worked in advertising agencies where she was rapidly witnessed a considerable gap between designers and clients. She consequently developed an interest in understanding people and their interdependence with design, thus her inclination to user experience. Studying UX has opened her eyes to user research methods. She values surprises arising from design experimentation, and aspires to create sustainable designs for a better future.
Retrio
In a world where language learning opportunities are limited to unpredictable stressful encounters and channels that fail to equip learners with real-world vocabulary, acquiring a language is rarely a linear process. With the use of formal language lessons and abstracted situations, current language learning practices were proven to lack context, enabling an endless loop of lost motivation. As a response, Retrio is an attempt for a more contextualised experience. This work in progress presents a digital scenario-based retrieval system for informal language learning. It is a personal library allowing people to keep track of their daily encounters and turn them into a language learning experience. This application gives the freedom for users to capture information in various mediums (text, audio, visuals...), to consequently organise them through personalized "scenarios".
In a world where language learning opportunities are limited to unpredictable stressful encounters and channels that fail to equip learners with real-world vocabulary, acquiring a language is rarely a linear process. With the use of formal language lessons and abstracted situations, current language learning practices were proven to lack context, enabling an endless loop of lost motivation. As a response, Retrio is an attempt for a more contextualised experience. This work in progress presents a digital scenario-based retrieval system for informal language learning. It is a personal library allowing people to keep track of their daily encounters and turn them into a language learning experience. This application gives the freedom for users to capture information in various mediums (text, audio, visuals...), to consequently organise them through personalized "scenarios".