All work
BrailLearn
August 2025 - November 2025
Mobile & web app to learn Braille through interactive games — for people who want to learn, need to due to low vision, or want to help others. Includes a custom class system. Live on Google Play.
The problem
Learning Braille depends on physical material and a teacher in the room; someone losing their sight as an adult has almost nowhere to start on their own.
Features
- Letter-to-Braille and Braille-to-letter games, covering 30+ characters
- Syllable and word games in both directions
- A class system: the teacher creates the class and follows each student's progress
- Race mode with a leaderboard
- Easy difficulty and adaptive difficulty
- XP and gamification with per-game scoring and visual hints
- Works offline and syncs on reconnect
- Push notifications on 72-hour cycles
- Light and dark themes
- Bilingual, Spanish and English
- Published on Google Play
My responsibility
Solo, end-to-end: the app, the custom class system and the Google Play release.
Stack
- Frontend
- React Native, Expo, React Context
- Backend
- Firebase Authentication, Firestore, EAS (Expo Application Services)
React NativeExpoFirebaseFirestoreEAS