ClassLink · design exploration · September 2026

Info Design

Four rounds on how we show data in ClassLink products, starting from how other people solved the same problem and ending in a working Analytics+ screen. Each round is a page you can click through. Read them in order or jump to round 4.

Boarding passes

What a redesigned airline ticket teaches about hierarchy, and three concepts applied to our current charts. Ends with a decision on direction and numerals.

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Four idioms we had not tried

A school report card, comparison against a benchmark, time shaped like a school year, and a dense analyst table. Includes a new color ramp for showing above and below average.

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Patterns educators already know

The displays teachers and administrators read fluently from their daily software: gradebooks, performance bands, state accountability ratings, suppression, adoption funnels. Includes a measured answer to the red-amber-green question.

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The Analytics+ pilot start here if you only read one

Every decision from the first three rounds assembled into one real Adoption screen. It has a reasoning layer you can switch off, which turns it from a study into something that looks like the product.

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Also here

K-12 Data Display Pattern Library — the reference document behind round 3, listing the patterns each audience already knows and how each one fails.
Every page has a settings control for light and dark, and rounds 3 and 4 let you switch the performance-band palette between stoplight and blues to see that question live.
Rounds 3 and 4 have a print stylesheet aimed at landscape letter, so they print without clipping.

Exploration only. Nothing on these pages has been accepted into the Frost design system. Questions to Chris Stevens.