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Avodah Connect

Preserving meaning across forgotten languages.

The Opportunity

Translating faster without sacrificing meaning.

Traditional Bible translation can take 20–25 years, making it difficult to preserve languages before they disappear.

Avodah Connect is an AI-assisted Bible translation platform that combines AI-powered translation with collaborative human review to help preserve forgotten languages.

The opportunity was to redesign the product into a multi-role platform with dedicated experiences for administrators to manage projects and contributors, and contributors to translate, collaborate, review, and approve translations with AI-assisted support.

Role
Senior Product Designer
Team
Product Manager · Machine Learning Engineer
Tools
Figma
Discovery

Redesigning the platform from the ground up.

Partnering closely with the product manager, I translated product requirements into a redesigned multi-role platform, validating each feature in bi-weekly reviews with internal account managers who worked directly with translation contributors.

I referenced industry examples and competitor patterns to validate workflow decisions against familiar user expectations. As new requirements emerged, I designed scalable experiences, extended the design system, and documented detailed interaction requirements, behaviors, and edge cases in Figma to support engineering handoff.

The Solution

Designing a multi-role translation platform.

I designed a connected, multi-role platform that balanced administrator oversight with contributor workflows, integrating AI assistance throughout the translation experience.

Admin project management

Administrators needed to quickly understand project health and keep translation projects moving forward, so I designed a centralized workspace that surfaced project status, contributor assignments, and progress at a glance — making it easy to identify issues and take action quickly.

Admin project overview with assignment list
Admin adding a user to the project
Admin assigning verses to a contributor
Admin view of full project with multiple users and assignments

Contributor translation workspace

Contributors faced a long and complex translation process, so I designed a guided workflow that broke work into manageable milestones, unlocking each step as contributors progressed to make the experience feel achievable rather than overwhelming.

Contributor level overview at start
Contributor starting a verse translation
Contributor with first completed verse and note
Contributor mid-translation with multiple verses completed
Contributor level in progress
Contributor level complete, ready to move to next level

Design Ownership

  • Sole designer partnering 1:1 with the Product Manager from requirements through delivery
  • Led the end-to-end redesign of a multi-role platform for administrators and contributors
  • Designed administrator and contributor workflows with AI-assisted experiences
  • Extended and evolved the shared design system as new product patterns emerged
  • Documented detailed interaction requirements, behaviors, and edge cases in Figma to support engineering handoff
  • Validated features through bi-weekly stakeholder reviews

Platform Highlights

  • Released across 6 countries with support for 20 languages
  • AI-assisted translation paired with collaborative human review
  • Multi-role platform supporting administrators and contributors
  • Guided translation workflow with progressive task completion
  • Scalable platform supporting complex translation projects
  • End-to-end workflow spanning project management, translation, review, and approval