Talulah
An end-to-end digital training companion for student pilots and flight instructors.
Duration
Sept 2025 → Dec 2025
Roles
Product Designer
Skills
User Journey Mapping
Interaction Design
Tools
Figma
Overview
Background
Talulah is a digital training companion designed for student pilots and flight instructors, addressing the 80% dropout rate caused by inconsistent, overwhelming, and costly flight training. There is no centralized platform that tracks learning, prep, and reflection for students, and instructors lack the resources to support them. My team designed the core student experience, focusing on dashboard pages, learning modules, flight log, and reflection, guided by principles of clarity, confidence, and consistency. Through collaboration with the client, I learned the importance of slowing down early to ask the right questions and co-creating a comprehensive site map to clearly define user flows, which allowed the product to come together cohesively. Shoutout to my amazing PM Jena and teammates Karen and Julia <3.
Challenge
How might we create a single, cohesive training platform so that student pilots can feel confident and supported throughout flight training, despite its complexity and inconsistency?
Concept
Module for Pre-flight Briefing
Solution Synopsis
Designed a student dashboard integrating learning, flight logging, preparation, and reflection
Established a clear information hierarchy to reduce cognitive overload during training
Created a consistent visual and interaction system to build trust and confidence over time
Process
Design Process
We began by grounding the project in becoming familiar with the problem space by communication with our founder, who had a lot of personal experience and stakeholder research. Early on, we intentionally slowed down to map the entire training journey, identifying moments of confusion, redundancy, and stress. From there, we collaboratively built a large-scale site map to align on scope, user flows, and system structure. This became the backbone of the product, allowing us to translate a fragmented training experience into a coherent digital ecosystem. Design decisions were continuously evaluated against our core principles: clarity, confidence, and consistency.
Student Site Map
Iteration
In low fidelity we explored multiple dashboard layouts and user flows through low-fidelity wireframes, prioritizing structure, navigation, and content grouping without visual distraction. Then in high-fidelity we refined selected flows into high-fidelity designs, layering in visual hierarchy, interaction states, and a consistent design system to reinforce confidence and usability.
student dashboard lofi
learning module lofi
Pros
Being able to visualize the progress to prevent fatigue
Breaking down briefings into one question per screen with immediate visual feedback
Cons
Differentiating pre and post-flight briefings from learning modules
Lack of mobility between screens
Learning module midfi
Pros
Celebration screen with navigation to next steps
Improved progress visual indicators using steppers and color hierarchy
Cons
Too text heavy on summary screens
Missed consistency of button colors and types
Result
Dashboard → Module Hifi
What we delivered
End-to-end student experience covering learning modules, flight logs, and reflection
A comprehensive site map defining core user flows and system architecture
High-fidelity UI screens aligned with a cohesive visual and interaction system
