Amplify Education
Design lead for an innovative learning platform and connected classroom experience that was able to provide real-time assessments for teachers to better help all students. Worked with all subject matter team leaders and curriculum specialists to ensure the platform would scale for grades K-12, across all subjects, extracurricular games, grading, and reporting.
Amplify Learning was born out of Wireless Generation, a company that created technology for student assessments on Palm Pilots, usually done after class has ended. The vision of Amplify Learning was to bring that concept to the classroom in real-time for an entire class, for all subjects, for all students and teachers.
I was brought on as the design lead for the platform that connected all the experiences together. I worked with an amazing team of visionaries, designers, engineers, researchers, artists, teachers, and curriculum specialists to define and shape this unique learning platform for two distinct groups of users — teachers and students.
Over the course of 2 years of R&D, we created many iterations, constantly testing with real students and teachers, tested in and out of the classroom. In addition to creating the new technology, all of the content was created for a completely connected classroom, married to the new UX we created.
Director of Product Design
@ Amplify Education
2012-2014
TEAM:
Robert Del Principe - Creative Director
Don Eschenauer, Roberto Christen, Preethi Chethan - Product Design, UX, Research
Lisa Stringer - Product Lead
Matt Halpin - Engineering Lead
Donald Johnson - Applications Architect