Amazon AWS Educate

Project Background

With the increasing demand for cloud-skilled employees, AWS Educate provides an academic gateway for the next generation of IT and cloud professionals.Amazon's AWS Educate is used in more than 200 countries and territories connecting 2,400 learning institutions, over 10,000 educators, and more than 100,000 students.

Students have access to classes and programs designed to prepare them for careers in the growing field of cloud computing while educators get access to cloud computing course material and class design resources. The AWS Educate Job Board connects companies hiring for cloud skills with qualified student applicants.

Website: www.awseducate.com.

Our Work

1. Strategic discovery

2. UX visualization workshops

3. User personas & journey maps

4. Design direction, high fidelity mockups & interactive prototypes

5. Component-based UI-kit

6. Development specifications, CSS, and HTML
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Our work included a competitive audit, UX (user experience) design, user flows and requirements gathering, the creation of a visual design system and component library, user and stakeholder interviews, brand strategy, a fully customizable frontend interface.

Our UX process consisted of research, ideation and design, prototyping, and iteration upon iteration, handing everything off along with our product recommendations and next steps.
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Strategic Discovery & UX Visualization

We began with stakeholder interviews, requirement visualization workshops, and building maps and user flows to help better understand the student journey.

Outcomes & Deliverables

1. Educator, student, and recruiter persona and experience flows

2. Development of Cloud Career Pathways and Badges

3. Streamlined registration experience

4. Searchable content repository and search taxonomy

5. Student job board design

6. Educator course builder

7. Student portfolio

Wireframes

Prototypes

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