Duolingo: connect understanding an answer with practicing again
Duolingo is a language-learning app for everyday learners. Answer explanations help with the question just completed, while practice options let people return deliberately to weaker areas and plan their next session.
Form your own approach first, then explore the reasoning to check trade-offs and validation you may have missed. There is no single right answer.
Give both continuing and understanding a clear next step
You are designing the answer-feedback area of a language-learning app. After a wrong answer, some people want the next question immediately, while others want to understand an unfamiliar usage first. The current screen only shows the correct answer and a Continue button.
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Task: Change only this feedback area. Sketch its default and expanded-explanation states, write the entry-point and button labels, and explain where closing the explanation returns the user. Keep the question, submitted answer and next-question rules as they are.
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Deliver and check: Submit two low-fidelity sketches and a short explanation. Trace “continue directly” and “open explanation, then continue.” Can users identify the current answer, find the explanation and predict what each click will do?
Explore the reasoning
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Identify the action each group wants to take now. Decide what belongs in the default view and what should appear on demand.
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Put one concrete word-choice mistake into the sketches. Check that the explanation can still be compared with the submitted answer and that closing it returns to a familiar place.
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Ask someone to follow both paths using only the sketches. Record how they interpret the entry point and Continue, then adjust the wording or hierarchy.