A legacy system, mid-build, under pressure

Jedu needed to handle dense compliance data for education boards - audits, questionnaires, school-wide reporting - while remaining usable by non-technical staff. The platform had been partially built when we took it on, which meant the challenge wasn't just design: it was threading a new design language through existing code without breaking what already worked.

Business Goals

Gain a competitive edge in the school compliance market, improve product delivery speed, and modernise the UI to reflect Judicium's recent rebrand.

Strategic Input

Led the transition from the inherited build to a new vision - defining which UX changes were safe to ship and which needed to be deferred to protect the legacy codebase. That triage was as much a product strategy decision as a design one.

Iterative, technically-grounded, role-aware

Working closely with Totally's development team, I drove the design from workshops through to final UI. The process was deliberately iterative - staged releases, tested with senior leadership and existing users at each step - to validate changes without destabilising the live product.

My Role

Lead UX/UI designer end-to-end - strategy, workshops, wireframes, IA, and final UI. Maintained a constant feedback loop with developers to keep design decisions technically viable throughout.

Information architecture

Restructured the hierarchy around "simplified data" - the core principle that users navigating audits or questionnaires shouldn't have to hold the platform's complexity in their head. Clarity over feature surface.

What we built

A role-based compliance workspace built for speed - where the right information surfaces for the right user, and every interaction is designed to minimise the time spent on administrative overhead.

Custom form builder

Designed a form builder that lets education boards create actionable audits, exported directly as professional PDFs for schools.

Multi-stage questionnaires

A streamlined onboarding questionnaire for end-users to complete before assessors arrive on-site, cutting pre-assessment friction.

Modal-based data entry

Implemented a design token system where table data opens into a modal - users can edit and return to their exact position in a large dataset without losing context.

Progress-driven dashboards

Replaced donut charts with progress bars to reclaim screen real estate for the data tables that sit at the core of every section dashboard.

Role-based views

Personalised welcome boards so users only see the compliance tasks and metrics relevant to their role - reducing noise and improving task focus.