LetterPlay

Educational apps for young children need to hold attention without relying on adult-style motivation like streaks or leaderboards. LetterPlay is a collection of educational mini-games for children, built around early literacy and numeracy skills through playful, game-based learning rather than worksheets, leaning on immediate visual and audio feedback plus a reward system that actually makes sense to a young audience.

What I Built

• Mini-game suite covering letters, numbers, shapes, and matching games
• Per-child progress tracking with difficulty scaling as skills improve
• Reward system — stickers and badges for completed games
• Parent dashboard for tracking a child's learning progress from outside the game

Tech Stack

• Framework: React Native
• Animation: React Native Reanimated
• Platforms: iOS, Android

Key Decisions

• Leaned on immediate visual and audio feedback plus a simple sticker/badge reward system rather than adult-style engagement mechanics like streaks or leaderboards, since those don't map to how young children stay motivated
• Added a parent dashboard as a separate surface from the child-facing game, since parents needed to check progress without the child's play experience being interrupted or complicated by adult UI

Outcome / Impact

Delivered a playful, effective early-learning tool that both kids and parents genuinely enjoyed using, backed by real progress data parents could check.