Role: User Experience Designer
Project: Educational App & Web Portal
Opportunity
A national non-profit association wants to create a mobile application to drive engagement in an educational program among students and their respective communities.
Approach
The mobile application should increase awareness of the association’s mission with the general public as well as drive participation with students in schools currently registered in the educational program. The ultimate goal is to promote an inclusive environment for students and members of the community with cognitive and physical disabilities through in-person events and positive social experiences online.
Solution
The mobile application will have a simple onboarding process that vets users associated with an existing school program and maintains a separate workflow for members of the general public.
Gamification techniques will be utilized to make the application an entertaining experience that users will be motivated to return to.
The organization sponsoring the application will have access to key analytics, reporting, user management and content management configurations through and administrative web portal.
My Role
I served as both UX Strategist & Researcher.
My contributions to the project included but were not limited to:
- Daily standup call with local and off-shore design team
- Daily meetings with clients
- Managing Kanban board
- Diagramming user flows
- Created user personas
- Ideated on design and copywriting
- Designed elements of gameplay - conceived preset bank of hash-tagged words in order to allow users freedom of creation, but limit the possibility of abuse by bad actors
Admin Flow
