![]() ![]() Learning a new language can be quite a daunting task, especially if it is something as vast as Japanese. The articles from NHK daily news needed to be broken down into sentences to help users learned quickly.Want to learn Japanese? Here’s the best app for learning Japanese. To engage users with the latest news, we used the learning materials from daily news by NHK. While users learned by reading an article, they were able to see which words they had learned to keep track on their vocabulary. Users were also able to filter the amount of sentences showing at once to avoid overwhelming them. Users would need to have the ability to see the English translation and the Japanese words quickly.īy choosing the kanji words, users were able to see the meaning, what words it made up, and how difficult was it. The color codes also important to let users know which type of words were those to help them memorized. To help users learned faster and focused on the learning, I used keyboards controls for the interaction, so users don't need to get distracted by moving around the mouse. Users could choose to learn from daily news by NHK, continue to learn from level 1, or choose from the Wanikani word progress. I used gamification approach to engage the users in learning. I designed the web app for both desktop and mobile views. Noto Sans JP has been subsetted to all of the kanji in JIS X 0208, JIS X 0213, and JIS X 0212, including all kanji in Adobe-Japan1-6. It has Thin, Light, Demi Light, Regular, Medium, Bold and Black styles and is hinted. Noto Sans JP is the Sans Japanese family. Noto is a font family that aims to support all languages in the world. It gave the creative direction on what colors should be used to bring the brand identity came to life. The mood board showed how the look and feel of the web app. Indigo was the primary color and sunset orange was the secondary color to create a calming environment to help users memorize better, but still had a fun touch to it. Kani Reader was a web application that supported Wanikani users to learn Japanese better by reading. It represented the largest Japanese learning community focusing on learning Kanji on Wanikani (alligator-crab). Kanireader logo used Cabin font to humanize the typography with a touch of modernism. Also, there was no clear design direction that could help users focused on the learning experience. The learning features were not categorized into one bucket, so the users might find them difficult to navigate. I did heuristic evaluation through the entire pages to provide some design recommendations.įrom the evaluation, it was clear that there was no clear information hierarchy to understand what was the purpose of the web app. However, the initial web app had critical issues relating the user experiences in overall journey.īelow is a snapshot of the previous Kani Reader web app. In the beginning, the developer already built the basic feature to show Japanese article in kanji, hiragana, and katakana that users could interact with to understand their meanings. Kani Reader used easy-to-understand articles from Japanese news media to help learners read kanji faster. ![]() In order to learn kanji more quickly, learners should learned it from a contextual form, such as everyday news. Most of Japanese learning apps focused on flashcards methods which didn't give the learners more context to the language. Moreover, people had to memorize most of the kanji in order to learn since each kanji represented a meaning. Learning kanji was challenging from the writing and reading aspects. Many Japanese learners expressed difficulty about the language and most of them said that learning kanji was what made it hard. ![]()
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