Storytime AI let families create personalised stories with their child as the hero. I designed the site architecture, the menu system, the content layout and the components, working alongside the company's in-house designer.
Storytime AI was a story-generation platform for children: a parent and child make a personalised story, and the child is the hero. The company had its own designer on the visual side. My part was the structure underneath it.
That meant four things: where everything lives, how you move between it, how a story and its illustrations sit on the page, and the reusable parts every screen is built from.
The home screen shows the structure at work. A side menu holds the six places you can go. The first row is personal, and its first card is always “Create New Story”, so making something new is never more than one tap away. Below it, trending stories are ranked one to five, so there's always something to read even before you've made anything.
Create also lives as a big button at the bottom of the menu, and the same menu points families to the mobile app.
Storytime has since changed direction. It's now a reading platform for K-12 classrooms and school districts, with a new website. The work here is the earlier family product, shown as it was designed, so I'm not linking to the site as it is today.
Working next to an in-house designer, my job was the part people don't see: where things live, how you get there, and the pieces everything else is made from.
When that's done well, the visual layer can change, and the product still makes sense.