Milestone 4: Ideation

Design Principles

• Approachable. Write in plain language; avoid jargon and technical terminology.
• Empowering. Provide users with multiple paths to help them achieve the same goal. Choose your own adventure mentality.
• Motivating. Add a point system and integrate social elements to encourage users to continue using the app. Allow users to challenge each other, earn achievements based on their progress, and use pre-defined development paths.
• Supportive. Include pre-set development paths that users can choose from. Potential to also allow supervisors, coaches, mentors, etc, to recommend development paths. Include user-submitted paths and option for users to share feedback and/or comments on different paths and challenges.

Foundational Theories & Approaches

• Learner agency/ self-directed learning
• Social learning
• Motivating learners with gamification
• Scaffolding learning
• ICAP Framework

Brainstorm

Some of the overall design for the app will be based on a previous prototyping project. You can learn more about some of those earlier design sketches here.

Although I already have a strong design concept from the earlier project, I still wanted to go through the sketching process to better incorporate changes in scope and the nature of this project.

Early Sketches

Next Steps

Some things to look into:

• Incorporate feedback on development competencies
• Look into Optimity site
• How Reddit manages/ displays user trophies
• Duolingo point system and leaderboard
• Explore Salesforce training site

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