Storypark

Supporting early childhood educators

Senior product designer
2021 - 2024

Web, iOS, and some Android
Discovery - concepts - prototypes
Figma

It has been hugely rewarding to work on tools specifically to help those working with children. Supporting children’s learning. Really appreciated the pedagogical expertise in house, the opportunities to connect with foremost academics, and the frequent visits and calls with incredible educators.

Teamed with product managers, devs, pedagogical experts and lots of customers. Discovery research and customer interviews to understand educator issues in NZ, AU & Canada. Prototyping to test, refine and flesh out solutions. Responsive web, iOS and Android.

Phone views of the routines pages in the Storypark for Educators app (iOS and Android). Showing the various types of routine, such as attendance, food, toileting ... viewed as the latest for all children, or showing as a timeline per child. — Educators record and check various routines each day. Making sure every child is supported.

Examples of the creation action menus in the mobile apps. To be able to quickly start a story, community post, or record a particular child routine. — Quick actions to create new learning documentation, comms, or routine records.

Visuals from a working design file, showing examples of updated mobile navigations for the Storypark apps. Android, iOS, and both the Storypark for Families and Storypark for Educators versions. — Standardising navigation across Android and iOS, educator and family apps.

Four example phone layouts showing the creation of attendance records, and handy attendance lists showing numbers of children present or unaccounted for, and numbers per the different rooms in a child care service. — Creating and monitoring child attendance records, providing easy oversight for all staff, showing who is where within a service.

Two example phone layouts. An example of an absence notification, and a view a child's routine records across a couple of days - showing they are marked absent for the current day. — Being clear when recording child absences.

Four example phone layouts of the Storypark app's incident recording feature. Showing an empty incident form, two examples of filled parts of the form, and an example mobile notification view. — Recording and reporting on all manner of child incidents, with admin oversight and parent notifications.

A large web view layout of the Storypark 'story editor', with a partially entered in learning story, authored by Sharon Carlson, but no title added in yet. — Creating a comfortable practical tool for educators to write and share learning stories about childrens’ experiences and development.