I acted as Lead Designer for the Sun project team from tender through to delivery. I was responsible for the initial requirements gathering process, working with teachers, governors and students to understand how the LMS might support them in their school lives. I was also responsible for the development of the final system architecture, the interaction and user interface design and the system art direction.

My job as Lead Designer required working with a number of development partners including Sun’s own development team, their sub-contracted development partners and the appropriate technical directors from the client schools. To ensure that the user experience remained consistent across all the different work streams I created a patterns library which recorded – in a common style and format – the common interaction flows included in the LMS.

During the project initiation phase I was responsible for discovering and clarifying BP’s broad project objectives and consulting with different stakeholders to ensure that our final design would address their specific needs.

BP required that the LMS be trialled to a sub-set of the final audience and the date for the beta launch was decided prior to project start. To ensure that we were able to meet the deadline we agreed to create ‘rapid prototypes’ of our proposed user experience and user interface designs. These were presented to the BP project team as part of a rapid, iterative design process, allowing the team to input meaningfully into the design process.

With feedback collected from the project team I worked with the Lead developer and the wider development team to ensure that the wireframe designs I had created were deployed correctly across the system.