Duolingo for the future

I love Duolingo as it is a simple tool based on repetition to learn the basics of a language. They have mastered graphics to appeal to a wide audience but they still could improve in some places

I see with the changing world and Duolingo could expand their services and reach. I wanted to do a case study of Duolingo because it is a software I personally love and use.

I will walk through a couple redesigns I discovered when reviewing and researching Duolingo’s current interface.

To heart or not to heart?

If you are anything like me, you love using your phone for as much as possible. And the idea of learning and a language on the go is highly appealing and perfect to fit in lunch time Swedish lessons. But there is one problem….. hearts.

On the mobile application you loose a heart every-time you get a question wrong and with only 5 hearts you can quickly run down. Remeber those iphone games you play for free on your phone? You then have to wait a whole day to refresh or purchase to keep going.

The only way around this is moving to desktop where hearts do not exist. Instead Duolingo uses an in-app currency called Lingots. You can essentially study as long as you wish on the Desktop version.