Portable thus set to work, creating a record for teaching, professional development. Our research into leading teaching record tools within the higher education and startup space assisted with identifying key features. Portable worked with existing Monash materials and content to centralise information for the benefit of its staff.
Portable researched and developed User Personas with the intent of addressing key functional needs. Some of these needs were akin to a logbook: a place to document, to reflect and to plan for the future. This process included talking to Monash teachers about their learning and teaching process and how they originally went about documenting this. Portable worked with existing Monash resources and content to centralise this information for the benefit of its staff.
Using this insights, Portable designed lo-fi wireframes to help visualise the platform. Then using those wireframes, our design approach focused heavily on user needs, wanting to addressing staff’s desires for activity and goal tracking. Portable focused on guiding their learning journey through documenting, tracking and reflection.The portal would generate a visual chronology of their career developments and use it to address problems and help teachers become more self-aware.
The design process was iterative and completely user centred. We provided the interface design of the key pages for desktop and mobile, including the timeline of progress, the user’s goals and actvities. The first iteration of Teaching Record was developed using the wireframes with the intent to provide Monash with an interactive roadmap on how to improve the culture of teaching at Monash.
