the goal

A more usable way for educators to request American Printing House for the Blind (APH) materials for their students.

tools & technologies

• HTML & CSS
• Photoshop
• git & Beanstalk

about the project

The American Printing House for the Blind provides a wide array of materials for people who are visually impaired. By Federal mandate, states are allotted a certain quota of funds to be used for purchase of these materials.  Michigan Department of Education, Low Incidence Outreach (MDE-LIO) oversees the purchase of these materials for students in Michigan.

The prior system was a single, lengthy webform that provided little in the way of features. CEN was tasked with revamping the order process to make it more user friendly.  Though it is very much like an e-commerce system, the main difference was that there is no inventory to manage.  This made most e-commerce platforms seem like overkill, so CEN chose to produce a home grown system of its own.

As part of the Technology Team, I produced the interface design concepts for 12 screens and revised them based on feedback from internal review.  I then converted the designs into HTML and CSS that would be used as the base for the programming piece.  Version control was handled using git and the staging and production servers were connected via a remote repository for easy deployment.