A tool to create teaching resources
Project Type
End-to-end product design for a personal project
Contribution
Wireframe
Hi-Fidelity Prototype
My role
UXUI Designer
Outcome
A complete design for a web App
Brief
Preschool teachers are the ones in charge of planting the seed of knowledge in their students and they do it though engaging activities.
For this teachers would use printed materials to make their activities more attractive for their young students.
Preschool Planet is a web application where teachers can create educational resources for their lesson plans.
The Problem
Teachers have to pay to download educational resources for their lesson plans that not always match their students needs.
The Goal
Create a wed design platform where preschool teachers can create personalised educational resources to support their lesson plan.
The approach
User interviews
Competitive and Comparative analysis
Crazy 8’s Ideation
User Flow
Wireframing
Discovery: Research & Analysis
I decided to run a series of interviews to better understand the potential users and how they use the different web applications to achieve their goal.
User Journey browsing for educational resources
Comparative Analysis
I was able to confirm that teachers use multiple online platforms to get the resources for their lesson plans.
However, according to the interviews and comparative analysis, teachers usually don’t get exactly the resource they want as most of the ones available don’t have the option to personalise the resource.
Design: Ideation & Sketching
Crazy 8’s ideation technique
Using the Crazy 8’s technique I came up with 8 different features ideas for the website layout and design.
Creating the storyboard helped me to understand the flow of the teacher interaction with the product.
Storyboard
Hi-Fi Prototyping
The prototype takes the User through the process of looking for the Educational Resource they need and the opportunity to edit and personalise the resource within the same platform.
Style Guide
Logo
Colour Palette
Typography
Test: Validation, Usability, Feedback
I recruited 5 Preschool Teachers to test the prototype and gave them the following set of instructions at the beginning of the test.
Usability Test
- 100% of the participants liked the overall concept.
- 100% of the participants found the Log In/ Sign In easy to do.
- 80% of the participants found easily the 2 Printable assigned in the instructions.
- 100% of the participants liked the online editor useful.
- 100% of the participants found the navigation on the editor easy to follow.
- 100% of the participants succeeded in create their own printable.
Results and Next Steps
The purpose of this project was to create a digital product that would simplify the way Preschool Teachers find resources to support their lesson plans.
Preschool Teachers found the Preschool Planet really useful as they were able to personalise the resources to fit their students needs.
I would like to take the project to the next step and create the actual website.
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