A research & development sprint to explore the future of education.

Amplify, a digital education platform, sought to envision speculative educational futures and workshop platform and product expansions to establish a pioneering stake in the digital education landscape.

We focused on tools and the creation of opportunities for teachers to be better connected with their students and how to give students the ability to better express themselves. Other than that, we can’t talk much about our objectives.

That’s all we can say, folks! AR-01

We designed a convergent-divergent research and ideation cycle engaging the team at Amplify to collaboratively envision their future platform and potential feature sets.

We utilized a convergent-divergent process to facilitate our research and ideation. The process ultimately leads to a narrowing of ideas through a series of expanding and focusing working sessions. We like it because it allows us to begin with a loose focus and hone the ideas through many rounds of articulation with our collaborators.

A diagram of our convergent-divergent research and ideation process. AR-03

We facilitated the process through a series of focused virtual whiteboarding sessions. Ultimately, these collaborative sessions left a trail of ideas that were pared and then further developed as we worked through each phase of the process.

The virtual whiteboard with the entire process mapped out and archived. AR-04
In the end, we had a self-presenting deck highlighting 10 feasible paths to pursue with the Amplify team for the future of their platform. AR-05

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Brief
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Concept
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Process
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Output
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