Parent Portal

• Objective: Create a centralized digital platform for teachers and school systems to manage communication with parents, including messaging, grade sharing, report card uploads, form signatures, and conference tracking.

• Target Audience: Teachers and school systems seeking an efficient, streamlined approach to parent communication.

Sole designer and developer: Responsible for concept development, research, wireframing, and prototyping.

Process: Followed the Design Thinking framework for a user-centered approach.

• Empathize: Identified common pain points in parent communication through informal discussions with educators.

• Define: Outlined key features to address communication needs, such as messaging, grade sharing, and document tracking.

• Ideate: Generated ideas for an interface that would be intuitive for teachers to manage and easy for parents to navigate.

• Prototype: Created low- and high-fidelity prototypes using Figma, illustrating key functionalities and user flows.

• Ensuring ease of use for both tech-savvy and non-tech-savvy parents.

• Balancing comprehensive functionality with a streamlined interface to avoid overwhelming users.

• Developing features to support privacy and secure communication.

• Designed a user-friendly interface that consolidates key parent communication tools, including a messaging system, grade sharing, and signature-ready forms.

• Integrated a conference log feature, enabling teachers to track parent interactions across the school year.

• Conceptually included security measures (data privacy) to ensure compliance with educational privacy standards.

• Created a prototype that received positive feedback from peers, with educators noting the potential to streamline communication and improve transparency.

• Developed enhanced skills in feature prioritization for educational software.

• Reinforced the importance of simplicity and ease of use in educational tools, especially when catering to a broad audience.

• Gained valuable experience in designing for multiple user groups within a single platform (teachers and parents).

• Plan to iterate on the design by adding more customization options and exploring additional security features.