Data Recognition Corporation
Scalable Assessment Platform & Design System —
Accessible, mobile-first experiences across large-scale education and government systems
Overview
Designed the flagship INSIGHT Test Engine and created DRC’s first accessible design system, establishing a scalable foundation for complex assessment platforms.
The platform serves millions of students across 50,000+ institutions, including the Florida Department of Education and the United States Department of Defense.
Focused on delivering accessible, mobile-first experiences while enabling consistency and scalability across large, distributed systems.
The Problem
The platform lacked a unified system and was not designed with accessibility as a core requirement, creating challenges in meeting state-mandated compliance standards.
Interfaces varied across products, making consistent experiences difficult for both student (B2C) and administrative (B2B) users in high-stakes environments.
- Accessibility gaps required rework to meet compliance standards
- Inconsistent patterns and limited mobile optimization across workflows
- High development overhead and difficulty scaling without a shared foundation
Design System
Created DRC’s first design system, establishing a scalable foundation for accessible, mobile-first assessment and administrative experiences.
Key Contributions
- Built a reusable component library for forms, tables, and workflows
- Defined design tokens for consistent color, typography, and spacing
- Standardized patterns for accessibility, validation, and interaction
- Enabled consistent implementation across products and teams
These issues slowed development and made it difficult to deliver reliable, accessible experiences at scale.
Design Tokens, Storybook & System Adoption
Led the foundational implementation of a token-based design architecture using Token Studio and Storybook to standardize color, typography, spacing, and interaction behaviors across the platform.
Created and facilitated hands-on training and knowledge-sharing sessions for designers and developers to drive adoption of token-driven workflows, shared components, and scalable design system practices across teams.
This improved consistency, accessibility alignment, and implementation efficiency across assessment and administrative experiences.
Outcome
Established a scalable, accessible foundation for delivering high-stakes assessment experiences across large, distributed systems.
- Designed to meet WCAG 2.1 AAA accessibility standards, ensuring inclusive experiences across diverse user needs and assistive technologies
- Accelerated delivery and reduced development friction through reusable components and standardized patterns, resulting in fewer technical issues and support tickets
- Improved consistency across test delivery, administration, and reporting workflows
- Contributed to measurable gains, including +41% analysis capacity, +15% timeline improvement, and −20% time-to-market, scaling across thousands of institutions and millions of users