


I am in love with this and will continue to use this more than my actual course I paid for.” - Student I am so much more motivated to work on this website than I am in my course. Through the 4 months I’ve been in the course my score has been steady, but the biggest jump I’ve had was 6 points due to Khan Academy. This helped us to get feedback closer to realistic conditions - and helped us gauge how motivating our mechanics actually were over a sustained period of time - rather than try to design based off single usability sessions.Īt the time of this writing, the product was still in beta - but even before launch, we got a lot of positive preliminary feedback from our beta release that went out to 8,000 test takers. Students studying for the LSAT would keep a diary of their experiences using our product, providing feedback and explaining how they were using the product with their studying. (Basically, “longitudinal” just meant we followed the same users as they used our product over a period of time.)

Once we had a functional product and a direction that users reported as compelling to them, we conducted longitudinal diary studies with real test takers studying for the LSAT who used our product to help them study. However, given that mobile has overtaken web as users’ primary if not only device, we wanted to ensure whatever system we created could be future-proofed to work across both web and native. Though most students used their phones more and preferred phones for on-the-go practice, most people took full practice tests exclusively on their computers. A small sampling of early prototypes we playtested with users
