The task
Textbook history is dates and paragraphs, and most educational apps about it look exactly that way. Cognition rests on a different idea: history is moved by people, and it is more interesting learned through them. The design had to carry that idea — leave the classroom look behind without sliding into entertainment.
The approach
The person sits at the centre of every screen. Large typography works like a poster: the name and the character read before the facts do. Contrast and colour set the pace while the hierarchy stays scholarly: the product is bold to look at and disciplined underneath.
What we did
Design language. Bold type, contrast and colour — closer to a cultural publication than a textbook.
Product screens. Portraits of eras through their people: the person, their time, their trace.
The system. Rules by which new figures and materials enter the product without losing its character.
The result
- history reads like a publication, told through people
- the bold look stands on a strict learning structure
- the project received a design award
