// Matt Mair Lowery // User Experience Consulting and Design Portfolio
Project: Learning.com (2007-2013)
Matt functioned as Learning.com’s chief user experience designer from 2007-2013, collaborating with the company’s internal Product Marketing and Development teams to develop the award-winning Sky Digital Learning Environment.
After working directly with Learning.com’s product marketing team to brainstorm products and define features and product vision, Matt created workflows, wireframes and designs that enabled departments across the organization to quickly understand that vision. He also guided an iterative design process - from initial concept development to the addition of new features - that focused on users and their needs. Those users comprised two groups: students in grades K-8, and their teachers.
These audiences required greatly differing levels of complexity in terms of functionality and UX. At one end of the spectrum, the youngest students needed a simple experience in which they could easily locate and launch prescribed lessons. At the other end, teachers needed to be able to create complex course materials and manage dense, standards-driven rubrics. Throughout his time working with Learning.com, Matt dealt with multiple projects on both ends of that spectrum and many that fell somewhere in between.
After providing detailed, finished designs for stakeholder review and approval, Matt delivered handcrafted HTML and CSS to Learning.com's internal developers and worked directly with them to implement the designs within their source-controlled codebase.
WORKFLOW DIAGRAM
Map/workflow example detailing the UX related to third-party integrations with the Learning.com marketplace.
STUDENT UI DESIGN
Example Student UI design. Prior to the widespread use/proliferation of wireframing tools (as evident from the aesthetic, the above is from 2009), Matt executed full designs at even the initial stages of feature discussions.
An example of a slightly later version of the Student UI, looking to ease the product into a more contemporary look (circa 2011) without completely abandoning the existing aesthetic and branding.
TEACHER UI DESIGN
An example of a more complex Teacher UI journal grading design (circa 2010).