mi-EraStudy planner app for teens

Students plan assignments, work in focus sessions and keep their streak alive. An AI assistant helps break big tasks into a plan.

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Overview01

Author

Dennis Polevik

CEO

September 30, 20264 min read

mi-Era is a study app for teenagers in the US: a private daily system for planning, focused work and emotional check-ins. We designed the mobile app with task planning, a focus timer, streaks, badges and an AI assistant, plus a web CMS that runs the landing page, blog and waitlist.

What we did

Product analysis & data modelUX/UI designMobile appAI assistantWeb CMS

Tasks

1Model tasks, progress stats and personality types
2Design the focus session flow with breaks and self-checks
3Build planning with assignments, deadlines and rescheduling
4Add gamification: streaks, levels and badges
5CMS for landing page, blog, static pages and waitlist

At a glance02

The project at a glance

Challenge

Teens get homework, exams and projects, but no system that turns them into daily steps. Plans fall apart, focus slips and motivation fades after a few days.

Solution

A mobile app that breaks assignments into short tasks, runs them as timed focus sessions and rewards consistency with streaks, levels and badges, backed by an AI assistant.

Result

Two products that work together: the student app and a web CMS in which the team edits the landing page, publishes blog posts and manages waitlist signups.

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products: mobile app and web CMS
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app tabs: Home, Assignments, Profile, AI assistant
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timer modes: focus, break and self-check
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landing page sections editable in the CMS

The product

A daily system that trains focus

“Focus isn't taught. It's trained.” That line from the landing page sums up mi-Era. The app targets teenagers and their parents in the US and promises progress without surveillance: the student plans, works and reflects in a private space.

The challenge

Why good intentions don't turn into study time

No plan
A big assignment arrives as one block, with no breakdown into daily steps.
No focus
Studying without structure turns into distraction and unfinished tasks.
No momentum
Without visible progress, motivation fades after the first few days.

Data and flows before pixels

A data model built around progress

Tasks, project schedules with sessions per week, and progress stats with current streak, tasks completed in the last seven days and level. A separate block stores personality types with their history, source and confidence, so the app can adapt to how a student works.

The focus session, step by step

Play starts a session. When the timer ends, the app asks whether the task is done: yes leads to a self-check, no offers another session or a break. Quitting triggers a warning that the streak will be lost. Early sketches tested this before any design.

Focus session flow

First sketches

Wireframes for every key screen

Onboarding with avatar, username and birth year (users confirm they are 13 or older), home, focus timer, mood calendar, profile with badges, assignments and the AI assistant editing a plan in chat.

Mobile app

The app for students

Bright purple, a friendly star mascot and large tap targets. Four tabs keep everything a student needs one thumb away.

Home: today's plan and the streak

A greeting, the current streak, level progress and a week strip sit above today's checklist. Each task opens with its steps, and several tasks with deadlines can be created in one go.

Home screen with streak and tasks, task details and new task form

Assignments the AI helps plan

Assignments show ongoing and completed work, study days and progress. The assistant drafts a plan with name, icon, colour, deadline, timer length and number of tasks, ready to adjust. Overdue tasks can be rescheduled in one tap.

Assignment list, AI-generated plan and assignment details with overdue task

A focus timer with three modes

Focus, break and self-check each get their own colour and message, from “This is strong focus — keep going” to “Take a few minutes to rest”. Task details are one tap away.

Focus timer in focus, break and self-check mode

An AI assistant that looks at your work

Suggested prompts cover planning, productivity techniques and motivation. Students can attach an image, for example a photo of a checklist, and the assistant analyses it. The upload is limited to PNG or JPG up to 5 MB.

AI assistant chat with suggested prompts, file upload and image analysis

Badges, subscription and an emotion journal

The profile shows level, longest streak and badges. A free Start plan includes tasks, the Pomodoro timer, daily emotional check-ins and a limited AI chat; paid plans come monthly or yearly. The journal logs mood per day and offers a summary.

Web CMS

The admin panel for the team

The marketing side runs in the browser, so the team can update content without a developer.

Dashboard with quick actions

Total, draft and published posts plus waitlist signups at a glance, with shortcuts to write a post, edit pages or open the live site.

mi-Era admin dashboard with post counters and quick actions

A blog for teens and parents

Posts with status, dates and slugs, such as study methods, using ChatGPT or Gemini without letting it do the work, and supporting teens without surveillance.

Blog post list with status, created and updated dates

Static pages

About us, privacy policy and terms of service, each with its own route, are edited in the same panel.

Every landing section editable

Nine sections, from hero and statistics to pricing and FAQ. Tagline, heading, subheading and screenshots change in a form and appear on the live site immediately.

Homepage content sections in the mi-Era CMS — Sections

Hero section editor with tagline, heading and subheading — Hero editor

Three parts, one product

Mobile app
Planning, focus timer, gamification and emotion journal for students.
AI assistant
Plan drafts, chat and image analysis inside the app.
Web CMS
Landing page, blog, static pages and waitlist for the team.

Results

From intentions to a daily routine

mi-Era turns homework into a routine a teenager can follow: small tasks, timed sessions and visible progress. The team markets the product from its own CMS.

Assignments broken into daily tasks with deadlines and rescheduling.
Focus sessions with breaks and self-checks instead of open-ended studying.
Streaks, levels and badges that make consistency visible.
Landing page, blog and waitlist managed without a developer.

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