// Matt Mair Lowery // User Experience Consulting and Design Portfolio
Project: Education Plus (2012)
Matt worked with Aequitas Capital on their Education Plus web app, mapping out the user experience and providing wireframes and finished designs for this student loan management product.
With several 3rd party financial firms and data providers involved, the first key aspect to this project was communicating to Aequitas Capital's internal stakeholders the breadth of the project and the systems outside of their organization that the product would touch. It was also one of the company’s initial experiences with tech development, so educating the stakeholders was essential before diving into the finer details of the UX. To that end, Matt created maps and workflows that would be understandable to non-technical folks but speak to developers as well, and allow them to point to a picture in order to illustrate their needs for communicating with partners about user identity validation, potential APIs, etc.
The wireframes and designs for this project were fairly straightforward, and leaned heavily on a step-by-step, wizard-based approach.
PROCESS: FROM MAPS AND WORKFLOWS TO WIREFRAMES AND DESIGNS
Site/application map
Use case workflow example
Use case workflow example
Wireframe example
Wireframe example
Wireframe example
Wireframe example
DESIGNS
Finished design example (designs were delivered first as a flat files and then, after approval, as responsive HTML/CSS).