RCE

Research and Define the Needs

Conducted a content audit of existing print curriculum products with the content strategy group to determine digital needs
Gathered explicit and hidden needs from teacher focus groups
Prioritized the features and functionality with the business analyst, scrum master, head engineer, and product owner
Together, created a universal metadata structure to simplify the ingestion of dozens of epubs. This structure allowed for a single but flexible epub reader.

Design

Sketched initial wireframes on whiteboards and in notebooks during group design sessions
Put together quick prototypes in Axure
Provided art direction to the user interface designers
After each round of review, we increased the fidelity of the Axure prototype to eventually be a fully clickable design
Showed prototypes to the Education Advisory Panels (groups of Teachers around the country)
Adjusted designs based on all stakeholder feedback

Development

Worked with engineers to set up common components and specs
Turned over specs via Zeplin
Worked with engineers to resolve design issues as they came up during 2-week sprints
QA'd the design in build

Communicated completed stories with all stakeholders via sprint demos
Gathered feedback on delivered functionality to determine what needs to be adjusted in subsequent sprints
Incorporated feedback into upcoming sprint plan
Measured performance with data analytics