Taking a look at online learning’s biggest pain points.

A foreword: I’m always hesitant to commit to a redesign in fear of beating the proverbial dead horse with yet another mobile design in a book called Overly White And Punctuated With Bright Gradients. More often than not I come across unsolicited redesigns that largely lack consideration for developers or heterogeneous user bases. For a change of pace, I’m going to avoid designing purely for aesthetic and hopefully make Coursera a more viable product for anyone who considers online learning.

Coursera isn’t new to the game: it was originally founded in…