Seesaw School + District Library
The School and District Library contains content that is approved by School and District that teachers can reliably browse, search, and share with their classes.
My Role
Lead Product Designer partnering with PM, Engineers, and Leadership. Designed end to end experience, from initial brainstorm to high fidelity mocks. Output includes: web, tablet, mobile mocks.
Responsibilities
Planning
Brainstorming +
Rapid Iteration
Eng Ready Mocks + Prototype
User Research + Testing
Feedback + V2
The Challenge
Currently, the School & District Library is an unorganized list of activities submitted by teachers or admins within a building or district. Some District Libraries contain over 1K Activities.
Problem #1 - Admins expect tools to organize and curate this space.
Admins want to save teachers time by directing them to learning sequences they can easily teach.
There is no way for admins to thematically group related activities.
Admins want more control over what is submitted to the District library
Problem #2 - Teachers struggle to find relevant content in the School & District Library.
Admins expect Teachers to use this space over other libraries, but prior user interviews suggest that Teachers find this space overwhelming and repetitive.
User Stories
As an Admin I want to create a reliable place for my teachers to easily find activities and learning sequences that are ready- to-teach and thematically-aligned to my district’s priorities.
As an Admin, I want to organize the existing content I have quickly so that I can save time organizing the Library.
As an Admin, I want more control over who might submit to the library so that I can ensure that the content is high-quality.
As a teacher, I want to easily find content that is approved by my district and assign it to my class.
Current screens
Any Activity or Lesson submitted to the School & District Library is added to the top of the list.
There is no way to group, or organize any of this content, making it extremely hard for teachers to find what they are looking for
Initial Mocks and Thinking
Home Page
Do we need an explicit “edit mode” for Admin? If so how do we display?
Does the Admin open in “view mode”? If so, how similar should this experience mirror the Teachers’ view?
How might we organize Collections at this level? Ideally, the user could organize straight from this page, but at what cost?
Collection Page
Inside a collection, should we allow the user to edit the collection with bulk actions?
if so, what actions are the most important for V1?
Sections in Collections
How do we allow further light-weight organization? We had to balance a tight timeline here, and explored a “section” approach, which was already partially implemented, rather than a sub-folder system.
note: the company was undergoing a rebrand, so mocks have different colors and fonts.
Launched Product
click on the image to view a clickable prototype in Figma