Work · Louie Sakoda

Selected work

Teacher judgment, a job seeker’s next step, and a student’s understanding. Three product stories, followed by an independent exploration.

Offboard

Building a career-transition product around the next useful step

One workspace for a role, with research and drafts that stay connected. Automation does the repeated work; the person decides what goes out.

Founder & Product Designer

Product strategy
Agentic workflows
Design engineering

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Foresights shows predicted skill ranges for a demo class and marks students with insufficient data.

CK-12 Foresights & Insights

Turning learning predictions into teacher decisions

Separate prediction from diagnosis. Make uncertainty visible. Help teachers decide where to look next.

Lead Product Designer

Systems design
Learning analytics
Product judgment

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Flexi offers an analogy, translation, simpler explanation, more detail, rephrasing, and a Challenge Me follow-up.

CK-12 Flexi

Helping students get unstuck without doing the learning for them

An answer begins the interaction. Clarification, source choices, and a next challenge give students ways to keep learning.

Lead UX Designer

Conversational UX
Learning
Research

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Simulated Neuron Shift workspace showing an asset graph and recommendation awaiting review.

Prototype

Preserving operator judgment across shift changes

Neuron Shift: an independent prototype exploring asset context, reversible decisions, and a handoff that preserves the reason behind an action. Simulated data; no live model or operator research.

Operator workflows
Design engineering

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All experiments AI design decisions

Different systems. Decisions people can make.

Building a career-transition product around the next useful step

Turning learning predictions into teacher decisions

Helping students get unstuck without doing the learning for them

Exploration

Preserving operator judgment across shift changes