InSTEP is a custom learning platform with a backend content management system. It incorporates various surveys to provide recommendations for various courses that would be beneficial for the users. The platform includes a community component where educators can come together and discuss different solutions for teaching 6-12th grade statistics and data science. Educators can explore the curriculum through "hands on" in-depth data investigations or by visiting topical areas called dimensions. Users can also earn continuing education units through micro-credentials.
I worked with the client and our internal team of developers to define the overall scope and product strategy for building this platform. I created complex flows to define the user's journey through the platform, site maps, and design artifacts that could be handed off to another UI designer to implement. As the UI designer worked on the high fidelity wireframes, I reviewed and provided feedback to ensure consistency, accessibility, and the user and stakeholder's needs were represented. I also worked closely with the development team to ensure that designs could be reused in a template with machine readable content for rapid ingestion into the site based on defined web components.
Our team and the client implemented focus groups early on to aid in decision making around the terminology and the flow and design of the platform. We had a 6 month period were the site was open to a group of beta testers. They provided robust feedback and we were able to make revisions prior to the public launch of the site.
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