Design / experience help wanted ✨ 💅

[aymannadeem]

Overview

SpeedyScholar allows you to get smart fast. The idea is to lower the barrier to entry into complex, academic topics. Papers have valuable information, but are often difficult to parse. SpeedyScholar is designed to be like a "CliffsNotes" for academic papers. The goal is to allow a lay-person to read up on something that would otherwise take significantly more time, effort or specialized concentration in a particular field.

Motivation

As technology gains sophistication, I can see software developers, designers and product thinkers wanting to be more looped into academic research. This will hopefully bridge that gap between industry and academia, increase awareness around what's out there, and give people enough context to probe and investigate concepts more deeply once they've read a summary.

Design tasks

• Would love some help thinking through the ideal experience this should offer (especially once there are categories such as medicine, anthropology, neuroscience, data structures and algorithms, etc.)
• Would love some help thinking through the layout

Icons

• Need logo (I was thinking a rabbit with a graduation hat but Idk if that's cheesy lol?)
• "get smart fast" (maybe timer or clock?)
• "easily learn essential ideas" (maybe a pencil with a checklist?)
• "grow your mind" (maybe a brain?)

Related

• Blinkist
• CliffsNotes

cc @jglovier @pifafu @katmeister @fabianperez — would love help if you guys have some spare time / ideas.

[digitalethics]

Fascinating idea. I think there is some potential to integrate this into Foliate, an eBook reader I'm helping out with. Have you pursued this project any further? Do you have more information you can share about how you'd like to realize your project? What potential angles do you see to make your project available from within Foliate?