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Users open the app to start learning â Duolingo instantly responds with a lesson.
Efficient UI/UX supports immediate use.
AI-powered lesson planning and practice suggestions based on your past mistakes.
Personalized vocabulary reviews, skill trees, and grammar tweaks.
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Nudges you to stay consistent: streaks, leaderboard challenges, time goals.
Uses positive reinforcement and progress tracking to build habits.
Some premium features like offline lessons or automatic XP boosts simulate automated convenience.
Notifications auto-triggered based on gaps in use (passive sensing + prompting).
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SENSE
Duolingo tracks user behavior such as time of day, session length, common mistakes, and skipped days. This helps the system understand the userâs intent, learning fatigue, motivation levels, and study habits.
PROPOSE
Based on the sensed data, Duolingo offers personalized suggestions â like review lessons targeting your weak spots, timely push notifications, streak-saving boosters, or motivational messages to re-engage you.
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ACT
The app delivers content in quick, gamified lessons with immediate feedback. Itâs frictionless â you can jump in, complete a short activity, and earn rewards instantly, keeping engagement high.
LEARN
Duolingo uses your responses, progress, and interaction patterns to fine-tune the difficulty and content selection. The system gets smarter over time, ensuring each learning session is more relevant and effective.
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SENSORS
Duolingo tracks user inputs like clicks, errors, time between sessions, and preferred language. This real-time data collection helps the system sense engagement levels, learning pace, and focus areas.
RESPONSE SYSTEMS
The appâs AI engine dynamically adjusts the difficulty of lessons, recommends review exercises, and introduces new challenges tailored to each learnerâs progress and mistakes.
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ENGAGEMENT LOOP
Gamified features such as XP points, gem rewards, streak counters, and social competition through leaderboards keep users motivated and coming back daily.
DELIVERY MODEL
Duolingo operates on an on-demand learning model with relational elements â it deepens user engagement over time. Its platform includes extensions like Duolingo for Schools, language podcasts, and Duolingo Max (an AI tutor), creating a rich, connected learning ecosystem.
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â  Streak Tracking â Habit formation (SENSE + PROPOSE)
đŻÂ Mistake-Focused Review Prompts â Just-in-time learning (PROPOSE + ACT)
đŹÂ Duolingo Max (GPT-powered tutor) â Real-time feedback & coaching (ACT + LEARN)
đ Smart Notifications â Automated engagement recovery (SENSE + ACT)
đ Performance Adaptation â Spaced repetition, difficulty scaling (LEARN)
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High Customer Lifetime Value: Daily micro-engagements build emotional attachment
Low Cost-to-Serve: AI automation handles most support and feedback loops
Data Flywheel: More users â better AI feedback â more tailored lessons â better outcomes
Multi-Sided Platform Potential: Duolingo for Schools, language podcasts, cultural integration
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â Behavioral design + personalization
â Continuous sensing & learning
â Seamless delivery of lessons
â Strong engagement architecture
â Low friction UX
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Deeper automatic execution: Like automatic calendar scheduling for lessons or passive listening suggestions
More physical ecosystem tie-ins: (e.g., books, travel support, certification)
Emotional intelligence cues: To sense frustration or motivation dip and adjust coaching tone
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Duolingo exemplifies a successful Connected Strategy by embedding personalized learning into a fun, gamified, and self-adaptive system.
It demonstrates how even low-cost services can build long-term, high-frequency customer relationships through smart design and the Flywheel framework.
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Duolingo is a language learning app that transformed from a transactional edtech tool to a highly engaging, connected digital ecosystem, using behavioral design, data, and gamification.
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