DSE prep, rebuilt around adaptive practice.
An e-learning platform for HK DSE students — mock papers, study materials, and the studio's first deep integration of Gen-AI into the design loop.
05 · cover plateHanlun · Gen-AI e-learningHK DSE is the public examination that decides where Hong Kong students go to university — high-stakes, repetitive, and historically badly served by static PDFs. The brief: build a platform that serves three audiences inside one product — students practising, teachers authoring, admins overseeing.
Three audiences, three different definitions of 'done.' Students need adaptive practice and clear feedback. Teachers need authoring leverage to scale themselves. Admins need cohort oversight without micro-managing. The challenge was finding the shared spine that didn't dilute any of them.
“We are learning what design judgment means when production speed stops being the bottleneck.”
Two parallel tracks: the product, and the way we built the product.
Student · adaptive practice
Mock papers and platform materials, sequenced by performance rather than by file order. The student surface hides the machinery and just shows the next reasonable thing to attempt.
Teacher · authoring leverage
Teachers can build, edit, and re-issue mock papers without an engineer in the loop. The authoring surface is where most of the AI affordance lives — scaffolding, suggestions, and review patterns that scale a teacher's voice across a class.
Admin · cohort oversight
Admins see the school, not the individual screens. Cohort progress, intervention prompts, and a calm reporting layer so leadership can act on what is actually happening across the platform.
AI in the design loop
The studio's first deep integration of Gen AI into the design workflow itself. We compressed spec → surface from weeks to days — using AI to draft, iterate and stress-test variants the way junior designers would, while design held the judgment seat.
Student · mock paper practice
Student · feedback view
Teacher · authoring
Admin · cohort dashboard
AI workflow · design loopHanlun is two products, really — the e-learning platform itself, and the prototype for how this studio works in the AI era. Both are live. We're learning what design judgment means when production speed stops being the bottleneck.