Public platforms · 2020–2023
Student Learning Space
Singapore's national online learning platform for students and teachers.
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Why it existed
During COVID-19, online learning became critical infrastructure.
The friction it answered
Feature decisions had to balance policy intent, teacher and student needs, UX behaviour, technical constraints, and QA clarity.
What was built
Shaped product features, contributed to design critiques, led backlog refinement, and wrote behaviour-driven specifications in Gherkin so scope was clear and testable before development.
What it left behind
The main lesson was the difference between building sites, workflow products, and content products. SLS is closer to a Photoshop-style creation tool than a product with one prescribed user flow. Teachers are not moving through a fixed funnel. They are assembling lessons, activities, media, assignments, and feedback loops in many valid ways. That changed the product work: it was less about designing the "correct" path, and more about making a flexible authoring tool clear, testable, and hard to misuse.