Inkwell

Online tuition for Years 7 to 12: a parent finds a tutor and books an hour, and every tutor proves who they are before anyone can book them.

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Studio concept · 2026 · Product design, Prototype

Inkwell's dashboard in a dark browser window running off the board over a blue night sky, on its Tutors page: the sidebar, then tutors as cards in rows with what they teach, when they are next free and their rate

The same window on its Checks page: two tutors that need action, lit red from the edge, and the six checks as cards, lit in white where they run by themselves

The same window on its Payouts page: the commission, the term's teaching hours read off a grey ruler, and the payout history

Inkwell's classroom, full screen as it is once someone joins the lesson: a whiteboard with integration by substitution worked by hand, a sketched graph and both people's cursors, the tutor and student on camera above a chat, with the call's controls beneath it

Finding a tutor on Inkwell, as one dark card on a night sky: a search for Maths, Year 11, and three tutors, each with their subject, rate and next free time

Booking a lesson, as one dark card: November's calendar with Thursday the 12th chosen in white, and that day's times beside it with 4:30 pm picked

A booked lesson as a dark ticket on a night sky, the sky showing through the bites at its tear line: Thursday 12 November, 4:30 to 5:30 pm, in large type above a tear line, then the tutor, who it is for, and a button to add it to the calendar

A new tutor proving who they are on one phone, on a night sky: a plain identity card held inside a frame on a dark camera screen, the instruction beneath it, and the shutter

A tutor's six checks as one dark list on a night sky: photo ID, face match, Blue Card, degree and ABN ticked in white, and references still waiting

A reviewer's decision as a dark card on a night sky: a licence photo and a selfie either side of a 71% match, the question of whether they are the same person, and two buttons

A tutor's next payout as a sheet on one dark phone, on a night sky, over the payouts before it: a fingerprint drawn from its reference at the head of the sheet, $1,647.36, when it should land, then what it is for, the CommBank account it goes to and the reference to quote

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the project

Inkwell is a made-up product for a Queensland tuition company that teaches online, and has to show parents that the person on the other end of the call has been checked.

A parent searches by subject and year and sees three tutors, each with the one thing they want to know: when they are next free. They book an hour from the month and that day’s times, the booking comes back as a ticket, and the lesson opens full screen, with a whiteboard the working is drawn on by hand, both cameras and the chat beside them.

A new tutor proves who they are on their phone before anyone can book them. Six checks run against a licence, a selfie, a Blue Card, a degree, an ABN and two referees, and a face match under 80% goes to a person, who sees the licence and the selfie side by side.

Staff run it from one dashboard: tutors as cards, the checks that need action, and the commission against the term’s teaching hours. Tutors are paid every second Friday and see each payout on their phone, with when it should land, the account it goes to and a reference to quote.

what we shipped

A dark staff dashboard for tutors, identity checks and payouts, in one window
A full-screen classroom with a hand-drawn whiteboard, both cameras and the chat
Finding a tutor, booking an hour, and the lesson as a ticket
Identity checks on the phone, a reviewer’s decision, and a tutor’s payout

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