EdTech Spanish Learning App

Garbanzo is a SaaS product for Spanish teachers and students, built while at my time at Zaengle. Garbanzo was created in partnership with an educator who wrote one of the most popular Spanish curriculums used by over 25,000 teachers in the US.

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We faced three primary challenges in creating Garbanzo:

• We had to create an online learning experience that complements and grows the existing loyalty teachers had for the written curriculum.
• We had to empower teachers to use the product while saving them time and headache.
• We had to optimize performance for an app that has to serve dynamic content in real-time to thousands of concurrent users.

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I started by building a comprehensive brand and design system built on the Storybrand framework. This product is also unique in that it serves both the teacher and the student, so we had to design experiences that work for both audiences. It also was built as a responsive web application, available across devices.

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We gave teachers the ability to add unlimited classrooms, assign lessons to classes or students, and monitor student progress completely online. We spent a lot of time in UX exercises, creating wireframes and prototypes that we tested with real teachers in the classroom.

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