Alera
Passion Project
1 Month
2025
Alera is an all-in-one upskilling platform that combines learning, career guidance, resume building, and job discovery into a single, unified experience for students and early professionals.
Learning platforms, job portals, and career guidance tools often exist in silos, forcing users to juggle multiple products with little continuity. Users struggled to connect skill-building efforts with real career outcomes, while platforms failed to provide a guided, end-to-end growth journey.
I designed a unified LMS that connects learning paths, skill validation, resume creation, and job opportunities within a single ecosystem. The platform guides users from upskilling to employability through structured flows, personalized recommendations, and clear progress visibility.
I followed a Design Thinking approach to design the platform from the ground up, focusing on clarity, motivation, and long-term user growth.
Empathize & Define: Identified key user pain points around fragmented learning journeys and unclear career outcomes
Ideate: Explored ways to connect learning, resumes, and jobs into a cohesive experience
Prototype: Designed low- and high-fidelity flows for dashboards, courses, resume builder, and job discovery
Test: Validated flow clarity and feature comprehension through iterative reviews and feedback
Structured the platform’s information architecture to balance multiple modules without overwhelming users
Learning teams want: easy setup, fast adoption, clear progress tracking, flexible content structures, enterprise-ready compliance, and measurable outcomes — without months of implementation or admin-heavy workflows.
Most LMS platforms fall into two camps: powerful but overwhelming enterprise systems, or simple tools that don’t scale beyond basic training. Very few balance depth, usability, and speed to value.
That gap — enterprise capability with a genuinely usable, modern UX — is where Alera positions itself.
Alera unified learning and career progression into a single, guided experience. The project reinforced the value of designing holistic systems that connect education with real-world outcomes while maintaining simplicity across complex feature sets.