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Responsive Content Engine (RCE)

When students and teachers are viewing curriculum content, they need to know how to annotate to increase student agency over learning, answer questions to further comprehend and solidify their learning, and navigate to another piece of content. 

I was the Lead Design Architect while building version 2 of HMH's Responsive Content Engine, the tools and system that displays ePub and PDF content to students and teachers. My role was over the user experience design and information architecture. I worked with engineers, designers, content strategists, and product directors.

Research and Define 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 hundreds of ePubs. This structure allowed for a single but flexible ePub reader.

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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

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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

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Share

  • 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

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