Education Endowment Foundation
The Education Endowment Foundation is an independent charity dedicated to breaking the link between family income and educational achievement
UI Design
During my time at Percipio - their long-standing client - The Education Endowment Foundation requested an update to their Teaching & Learning Toolkit, along with the rest of their site. The toolkit is one of the most popular education resources in the UK.
The brief for the new version wasn’t to completely reinvent or surprise users with something brand new but to fill the shortcomings of previous versions and build on the successes of previous major releases.
Armed with over a decade of toolkit information and draft outlines of the content structure, I was able to create a new, scalable user interface that is still recognised as the global leader in evidence Toolkits.
The EEF now have a content platform to allow its users to delve deeper into what makes up the evidence, and can be much more informed about how such an intervention could help in their specific environment.
In the past decade the EEF’s Teaching and Learning Toolkit has become one of the most popular educational resources, with over 70% of school leaders now using it to inform their decision-making.
UX Design
There is always someone accessing the Education Endowment Foundation site - quite literally. Not a minute now goes by where the toolkit and content isn’t being served up somewhere in the world.
As part of the new version, the EEF wanted to ensure tools and resources were easier than ever to find and download.
I studied site stats, user flows, a government commissioned usability test and conducted A/B tests to find the right solution and improve download hits.
In addition to this, I also put together a document outlining other ways to engage with the user, ensuring the user has an understanding of what the EEF do, and making their evidence even easier to find and understand.
Guidance report & additional resource downloads over doubled from the previous time period, with around 2,200 being downloaded daily, due to UX recommendations.
Graphic Design
Other tasks I was asked to undertake for the Education Endowment Foundation included the design and layout of some of their nationally distributed guidance reports, resources and tools.
This included designing multiple school support resources during the COVID pandemic, to help support teachers while having to teach remotely.
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