Professor's Edge was developed to help new professors learn to teach, communicate with peers and save and organize resources. New professors are experts in their field but frequently have not learned to teach, and when they look online they find little support. This project serves as my thesis for an MFA degree at the Academy of Art University, so it has been prepared to prototype specific use cases and is not a complete site. VIEW SITE
CONCEPT | MOTION GRAPHICS
Created concept video to introduce a website that helps new professors learn to teach. Here, an entrepreneur captures ebook highlights and transfers them to FileRoom where they can be edited. There are also articles about teaching, which can also be saved to FileRoom, and a forum to talk with others. The new instructor is ready for the first day of class with the Professor’s Edge.
NAMING | BRANDING
FileRoom is part of Professor’s Edge and lets user capture, organize, and output resources from ebooks, websites and their own files.
DESIGN | UX | UI | FRONT-END DEVELOPMENT
The home page presents the three distinct areas of the site. Five-second testing ensured that it communicates quickly and accurately to a new user.The mobile device displays the sections in a horizontal accordion.
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1 of 3 Areas of a Professor’s Edge: Learn to Teach. Articles offer rare insight to help a new professor learn to teach, and offer the opportunity to chat about the ideas with others. The articles are served from a database and can be filtered by the semester’s timeline.
DESIGN | UX | UI | FRONT-END DEVELOPMENT
2 of 3 Areas of a Professor’s Edge: Water Cooler. Professor’s Edge offers a place for new professors to talk with other professors—new and experienced. That can be rare, especially for adjuncts.
DESIGN | UX | UI | FRONT-END DEVELOPMENT
3 of 3 Areas of a Professor’s Edge: FileRoom. FileRoom introduces a way to save, organize and share your resources, including ebook highlights which are cumbersome to export otherwise.
