Talent Tree — Nobel Explorers

The main navigation of an improvised LMS for Nobel Explorers — a US startup running structured online learning programs for teens. Built entirely in Articulate Storyline 2 because the org’s tooling gap left no better option at the time.

The brief

Visualise a badging system across a branching curriculum so learners could see:

• Which courses they’d unlocked.
• Which prerequisites were missing for the next badge.
• How their path through the program was shaping up.

The design call

Use a skill-tree metaphor instead of a linear catalogue. It matches how teens already read game UIs — nodes, unlocks, branches — and it makes the shape of the program legible at a glance.

What the build is not

The output isn’t cross-linked with the underlying courses. That was a scoping constraint, not a design failure: the tree was shipped as the navigation layer; course delivery lived elsewhere. This is the skeleton, not the full stack.