user experience design, user interface design, information architecture
Research and Define the Problem
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Gather needs from customer feedback of the old platform
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Gather needs from teachers
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Gather needs from internal stakeholders
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Prioritize the features and functionality with the business analyst, scrum master, head engineer, and product owner
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Together, build an initial site architecture and hierarchy
Design
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Sketched initial wireframes on whiteboard
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Put together quick prototypes in Axure and printed them out
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Did some internal user testing to get general sense of usability
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Designed higher fidelity prototypes in Axure with full clickability
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Showed prototypes to the Education Advisory Panels (groups of Teachers are the country)
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Adjusted designs based on all stakeholder feedback
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Created visual design in Sketch
Development
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Worked with engineers to set up common components and specs
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Turned over specs via Zeplin
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Worked with engineers to resolve design issues as they came up during 2-week sprints
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QA'd the design in build
Share
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Communicated completed stories with all stakeholders via sprint demos
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Gather feedback on how the curriculum products changed and therefore what needs to adjust on the platform
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Incorporate feedback into upcoming sprint plan
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Measure performance with data analytics