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Student — Home Screen

The Home screen is the core of the Dyglot Student experience.

It is designed so that a student can: - open the app, - make two or three simple choices, - start learning immediately.

Everything else lives elsewhere.

  1. The Student Entry Screen (Design Principle)

A successful student entry screen contains only: 1. View selection (radio buttons) 2. Filter selection (predefined) 3. A large Practice or Browse button

Nothing else.

No field toggles. No pedagogy controls. No technical options.

Design Principle

If a student feels lost on the Home screen, the design has failed.

The Home screen is not: - a configuration panel, - a technical dashboard, - a place to manage data.

It is only about learning now.

Home Screen Structure

The Home screen contains exactly four elements:

1. Course (Classroom)

The currently active course.

  • By default, Dyglot always has a current course.
  • On first launch, this is a built-in starter course.
  • A discreet “Change…” action allows selecting another course.

The student does not manage storage or downloads here.

2. View

A View defines how a card is presented.

Examples: - Korean → English - English → Korean - Hanja view - Any custom view defined by the Teacher

The student selects one view at a time, using radio buttons.

Views are defined by the Teacher, not by the student.

3. Filter

A Filter defines which cards are included in the session.

Examples: - Beginner cards - High-frequency words - Verbs only - Lesson 1

Filters are predefined by the Teacher.

The student can: - choose one filter, - but cannot create or edit filters from the Home screen.

4. Action Buttons

Two large, explicit buttons:

  • Practice
  • Browse

Practice - starts (or resumes) a learning session, - cards are presented according to the selected View and Filter.

Browse - allows free navigation through the same card selection, - without question/answer logic.

What Is Intentionally Not Here

The Home screen never shows: - session history, - progress statistics, - database concepts, - expert settings, - technical identifiers.

All of these are available elsewhere.

First Launch Experience

On first launch: - a default course is already selected, - a default view and filter are preselected, - the student can press Practice immediately.

A subtle hint may invite the student to discover more courses later.

Mental Model for the Student

“I choose how I want to see cards (View),
I choose which cards I want to work on (Filter),
then I Practice or Browse.”

That is all the student needs to know.