A new way to edit your schedules with Darwin
We met with our community of universities to present the latest improvements to Darwin's schedule editing and management workflows. These updates are designed to optimize the user experience and make it easier to navigate the platform.
These improvements are part of a broader vision: unifying the experience and navigation across Foris Cloud Education Suite—Darwin, Albus, and Stella—to strengthen shared features, because many of the challenges we face are not specific to a single product but cut across the whole suite.
"We're building a solid ecosystem that brings all our products together in a unified experience. We want users to feel that, no matter which tool they use, they're still in the same environment. That has a direct and profound impact on their experience." — Franziska Koerner, Suite Manager
It has been a year full of progress… and the best is yet to come. We have focused on shipping features faster, scaling without friction, and delivering an increasingly consistent experience.
Darwin: more than a new look, improvements that make a difference every day
We completely revamped the schedule editing and management experience in Darwin. It is now easier, faster, and more intuitive.
Why did we do it? For our users. We knew we needed to give them a more unified, scalable, and efficient experience. For six months, our UX, development, QA, and product teams immersed themselves in the redesign: they analyzed every schedule editing workflow, identified pain points, prioritized key improvements, and talked directly with users to make decisions.
The result: a more modern, intuitive platform from the very first click. And this is just the beginning, because the process left us with a valuable backlog of ideas that will let us keep evolving Darwin in future stages.
"This update goes far beyond a simple color change; it's a deep overhaul, both conceptually and technologically." Javier Farías, Product Owner.
To achieve this, we added entirely new components built on the highest standards of accessibility, visual consistency, and usability. Here are some of the key changes:
- Home screen: a clearer, more practical interface for users.
- Side navigation: quick access to modules and features.
- Optimized workflows: faster session editing and calendar view.
- Dark mode: gives users the flexibility to choose the mode they prefer.
- Multilingual: the platform is available in multiple languages.
And that's not all! We also designed built-in onboarding with guided tours of the most relevant workflows, plus tooltips and hotspots that let us support users and give them context right when they need it, without interrupting their work.
Avocado: our design system and the DNA of our products
Meet Avocado, our centralized design system, which unifies the visual experience and interaction across all our products. This common foundation ensures consistency, identity, and scalability as the suite evolves.
Thanks to Avocado, we can replicate features faster, improve quality, and scale without friction. For users, this means an interface that is more accessible, readable, and easy to navigate, built to deliver a seamless experience at every touchpoint.
"Internally, we've cut errors by 80%, saved more than 70% on validations, and become more agile in design and development." David Tarquino, UX Lead.
Our CEO, Felipe Meneses, closed the session by highlighting the importance of investing in design that does more than accompany technology: it makes technology tangible and approachable for users:
"When it comes to the future of UI, many companies are pouring enormous resources into the back office—building mega data centers to feed models—but there isn't much work on what the interfaces of the future will actually look like."
What our power users experienced in this session is just a glimpse of what we are building: powerful, scalable, easy-to-use tools, designed around the user experience.
And this is just the beginning…
We will soon open new channels to share updates, launches, and improvements designed to evolve alongside our community.