About Appligogiques*

*Pronounced "Appligojeek"!

At Appligogiques, we create games that help children learn to read, spell, and write. The acquisition of language is a universal development process, and it can be difficult for children either with our without development impediments. It's a worldwide problem that we tackle with passion and ingenuity!

Specifically, our gamified pedagogical tools are built upon the latest research in speech language pathology and aim to awaken and develop phonemic awareness and lexical orthography in children ages 6-10. We also offer a suite of online tools that support teachers, education specialists, and parents in the complex task of fostering child development in today's digital, delocalized world.

About this project

We’re looking for top shelf talent to help us improve the user experience of our institutional user portal. It's all about making the tool more intuitive, self explanatory, friendly and ultimately, simple. We're a bunch of developers, and may not be the best in town when it comes to catering to the needs and expectations of the less technologically inclined.

The big idea here is empathy: putting yourself in the shoes of an elementary teacher, or a speech language pathologist/therapist, or even a secretary, how would you improve the experience, so that using the portal becomes a joyful, fun, and rewarding experience?

This can include adding or removing elements from the pages and menus, rethinking layouts, adding interactive or animated features, tool tips or help sections, changing the customer journey, and/or revamping the look and feel. We're open to anything, as long as it doesn't imply entirely scrapping what we already have in place.

You'll see, we did a pretty good job getting where we are now, and we need your help to take this to the next level.

Deliverables and expectations

The deliverables for this project are:

• New and/or improved design blueprints for our online portal

The key success parameters for this project are:

• You provide us with bespoke mockups made with diagrams.net. You can also use Figma.
• Your work follows the Material Design system canon
• Your design is hashed into clear, sensible Jira tasks/stories for our development team to implement

About our tech stack

• The portal's frontend is made using Angular.js (version 10), following the Material Design guidelines as best as we could
• The backend is made with Node, MongoDB, and hosted at AWS.