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Edtech websites have plenty of information. But do they give students a reason to stay?
Most education websites are built to tell students what a company offers. Courses, features, benefits, testimonials, and a CTA.
But what if the website itself became an experience students actually wanted to spend time in?
That’s the idea behind The Student Café
I built a little interactive world where students can walk into a cosy virtual café, settle in for a study session, explore a bookshelf, play mini-games, discover career paths, take assessments, and personalise their own café experience.
There’s even a cat to keep you company. 🐈
But this isn't just a cute café website.
I see it as a customisable student engagement app that edtech companies can bring into their own websites.
Imagine a learning platform with its own branded café. A career guidance company with an interactive discovery corner. An edtech startup that turns passive website visitors into students who explore, learn, and come back.
The experience could be customised around the brand, its courses, its content, and the students it serves.
Because engagement shouldn't end at getting someone to click a link. There should be a reason for them to return.
I built the first version of The Student Café using Base44, exploring how far I could take this idea beyond a conventional website.
Still a work in progress, but I’m excited about where this could go.
What if every edtech company had a little world of its own?
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That question became Dear Future my submission for the #Base44Challenge.
We save photos.
We save messages.
We save memories.
But we rarely preserve who we were in that exact moment what we were thinking, hoping for, afraid of, or becoming.
So I designed a digital time capsule where your words don’t just get stored.
They wait for you.
With Dear Future, you can:
✦ Write a letter to your future self or someone else
✦ Add memories and images
✦ Choose the exact future date it should return
✦ Personalize your capsule with colours and seals
✦ Seal it so it can’t be read or edited before its opening date
✦ Watch the countdown inside your personal archive
✦ Return later and experience the letter as something preserved not just another notification
But the biggest design challenge wasn’t creating a way to send a letter later.
It was designing the wait.
As a Senior Product & UI/UX Designer, I wanted every interaction to support that idea.
The archive.
The physical capsule metaphor.
The vintage television.
The sealing ritual.
The countdown.
The responsive mobile experience.
None of them are there just for decoration. Together, they turn anticipation into part of the product.
I designed the UX, visual system, interaction language, responsive experience, storytelling, and complete product flow then built and shipped the working experience with @Base44.
This project reminded me why I love product design:
A good interface helps someone complete a task.
A meaningful experience makes them feel something while doing it.
Dear Future Words outlive the moment.
Experience the project ↓
Dear future capsule
Would you write something for yourself five years from now?
the reaction is why i do this.
brew & bite had great coffee, a pool table that's always busy — & no website. not even a domain.
so my brother designed it in figma, shot every photo at the café & built it with @Base44:
→ live open/closed
→ what's sold out
→ is the pool table free
the owner runs it all with one tap and in his own words " this makes it way easier to manage " this is his process video before you ask, no, i wasn't forced to post this from my account for reach
I literally had to launch my website behind my own back 😭💻
As a brand designer, I kept finding one more thing to tweak before going live. A font, a layout, another section… the list never ended.
But building with @Base44 reminded me that launching doesn't mean you're finished. It means you've started.
✨ Here's what I built:
🌐 BrandingbyEl Website: A fully designed, published, mobile-responsive website that I can continue improving as my business grows.
🚀 Before The Launch (BTL) : A brand clarity tool. It helps founders work through their ideas, identify gaps, and get clearer on their brand before working with a designer.
My biggest takeaway? Progress deserves to be published, too.
Both projects are live, and I'm excited to keep building, learning, and improving along the way.
Built with Base44 🖤
Haha felt this so hard! As designers we are never 100% satisfied, always one more tweak. You did the right thing launching — done is better than perfect. Congrats on finally going live!