SBB / KiesMBO
What kind of education feels right for you?
I designed a skills-based interest test to help young teens explore Dutch vocational education. It starts with what they enjoy and what they’re good at, then shows them which programmes they could explore.
What feels more like you?
Choosing an education can feel like a big decision when you’re just starting to explore. I led research and tested a prototype that asks teens to pick between familiar activities, like making things with their hands or figuring out how something works. Six short, visual questions give them a place to start.
Give each answer somewhere to go.
I designed the results to give students a shortlist of vocational programmes to explore and compare. They could revisit their answers as their interests became clearer. I designed and tested the flow in Figma and worked with the team on the React implementation.
Make the skills behind the suggestions understandable.
Across my SBB work, I helped translate the CompetentNL skills taxonomy into language people could recognise. We looked at how historical job and training titles relate to current occupations and skills, and how to express those relationships in plain Dutch.
For KiesMBO, that meant describing activities a teen could picture and connecting those interests to vocational programmes they might never have thought to look up.
Watch me walk through both designs.
In the CompetentNL webinar, I showed how Leerbanenmarkt helps people explore occupations and work-based learning, then demonstrated the KiesMBO interest-test prototype for young people choosing their education.
Open the full UWV recording
One platform language across very different journeys.
I worked on the shared design system so that exploring programmes, comparing their details and finding a school could feel like parts of the same platform. With developers and product owners, I aligned navigation, filters and information components while keeping each screen focused on its own task.
