Background

What

Road To Success (RTS) is an online platform whose goal is to foster literacy and a love of learning in K-8th students.

Who

• Primarily: K-8th students
• Secondarily: Teachers, Parents
• Also: Principals, librarians, and other administrators

Why

• To improve a paper-based reading tracker to be an online app with game-like qualities

Challenge

We converted a paper recording method to an online, gamified reading time tracker that guides kids through levels.

As such, parents can track their children's reading, teachers can see a roll-up of their classes or dig into individual students, administrators and principals can similarly see school-wide data or drill down to classes and students, and superintendents can see it all plus a district-wide view.

Method

1. Project kickoff to understand objectives
2. Write interview guide
3. Interviews with client stakeholders
4. Interviews with
   • Students
   • Parents
   • Educators
   • Local business owners
5. Iterative design sprints with developers and visual designers to build
   • World-building
   • Reward system
   • In-game and out-of-game economy
   • Community donation platform
   • Visuals and prototypes