ESMIT LMS
A custom educational platform for the European Association of Nuclear Medicine. Replacing a generic LMS with a solution built around the client's actual workflows.
Context
EANM ran its education through Brightspace by D2L. The platform worked, but it was too generic for the specific context of medical education in nuclear medicine. It didn’t match the association’s brand, administration required workarounds rather than working within the system, and new content formats kept hitting limits that couldn’t be reasonably pushed.
The brief wasn’t to redesign the existing solution. It was to build a custom LMS from the ground up, tailored to how ESMIT actually operates. My role was UX/UI design and the design system for the entire platform.
Prototype as a shared language
We started with architecture alongside the development team. What roles exist in the system, how they overlap, what the student needs to see versus the administrator, where courses sit in the data structure, and how content feeds into them.
This produced wireframes of the entire screen structure and a functionality map for both back-end and front-end. It served as a shared language between design, development, and the client, before the first pixel of the final UI was drawn.
From a generic LMS to a custom SaaS. I wasn’t just designing the interface, but working with the team to shape how the entire product should work.
A design system that follows the brand
A component system was built in Figma covering typography, colors, states, and components for courses, lessons, quizzes, certificates, and admin tables. Everything tuned to the ESMIT and EANM brand, so the platform feels like a product of the association, not a generic SaaS.
The design system serves as a single source of truth for the development team and for future iterations. New requirements or content types are added to the existing system, not built from scratch.
Result
The platform is in production and used across multiple countries. The project is not delivered and forgotten. We continue with change requests and further iterations, the design system growing alongside the platform.
- Custom LMS instead of a generic platform.
- Design system tuned to the association's brand, not a template.
- Platform in production, collaboration continues.