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The User Insight Challenge: Reshaping FL Social Studies

Archana Ramakrishnan

Created on November 22, 2023

You're stepping into a crucial role at a time when our Florida Social Studies courses are undergoing significant transformation. The challenge? They underperformed in the last adoption cycle, likely due to usability issues and a disconnect with user needs. Your mission is to revitalize the courses.

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Reshaping the FL Social Studies Curriculum

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The user insights challenge

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Welcome to the McGraw Hill team! You're stepping into a crucial role at a time when our Florida Social Studies courses are undergoing significant transformation. The challenge? They underperformed in the last adoption cycle, likely due to usability issues and a disconnect with user needs.

Introduction

Sounds good!

we need you

Your mission? You are tasked with revitalizing these courses for the Summer/Fall 2023 sales window. This involves more than just minor adjustments to the curriculum. It's about reimagining our approach to digital education in Social Studies. You'll be working at the intersection of content, technology, and user experience, crafting a product that truly resonates with our Florida audience.

Understood!

Your objectives:

1. Foster Human-Centric Design: Focus on resolving usability issues by deeply understanding educator and student needs and hopes, by taking a human-centered approach. 2. Enable Effective Communication: Equip our sales team with impactful marketing material to effectively communicate the immense value that the revamped curriculum brings. 3. Improve Brand Perception: Enhance McGraw Hill's reputation as a leader in innovative, user-friendly digital learning solutions.

I am ready!

You've discovered a significant gap in historical data on user engagement and market research. This presents an opportunity to start anew, focusing on deeply understanding and learning from our users. Each option offers unique insights & challenges. Your decision should balance the goal of deeply understanding our users with the need to consider broader market dynamics.

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Perform a market analysis to understand what has led to the success of competitors

Use existing data from ConnectEd to test with users in a targeted manner

Carefully structure the methods of user engagements

Initiate direct engagement with users

How would you perform discovery efforts for this project? Your decision should balance the goal of deeply understanding our users with the need to consider broader market dynamics.

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Action: You carefully planned the user engagement process, selecting methods that provided the most relevant insights within your resource constraints.Consequences: This structured approach helped igather focused insights, but the challenge was in ensuring the data collected was representative and actionable. Balancing depth with breadth was key for effectiveness.

Perform a market analysis to understand what has led to the success of competitors

Use existing data from ConnectEd to test with users in a targeted manner

Carefully structure the methods of user engagements

Initiate direct engagement with users

How would you perform discovery efforts for this project? Your decision should balance the goal of deeply understanding our users with the need to consider broader market dynamics.

Use existing data from ConnectEd to test with users in a targeted manner

How would you perform discovery efforts for this project? Your decision should balance the goal of deeply understanding our users with the need to consider broader market dynamics.

Carefully structure the methods of user engagements

Perform a market analysis to understand what has led to the success of competitors

Initiate direct engagement with users

Back

Action: You analyzed market trends and competitor strategies to understand the broader educational landscape. Consequences: This provided strategic insights for market positioning but lacked the depth of direct user feedback, potentially leading to assumptions rather than user-driven innovation.

Use existing data from ConnectEd to test with users in a targeted manner

How would you perform discovery efforts for this project? Your decision should balance the goal of deeply understanding our users with the need to consider broader market dynamics.

Carefully structure the methods of user engagements

Perform a market analysis to understand what has led to the success of competitors

Initiate direct engagement with users

Why? This helps uncover their daily challenges, preferences, and expectations, to surface rich qualitative insights (data, statistics) to detect overall patterns

How? Through interviews, surveys, and classroom observations.

If you.. initiate direct engagement with users, here is what that would mean:

What do we do? Engage directly with educators and students

Your choice

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Start over?

CONGRATS!

Try again

WRONG!

If you..

Carefully structure tour methods of user engagements
  • What do we do? Determine the scope and method of your user engagement.
  • How? Will you conduct in-depth interviews, quick surveys, or observe classrooms in action?
  • Why? Each method offers different insights and requires varying levels of resources and time commitment. Consider the balance between depth of insight and practical constraints.

Explore other options

Select this option!

If you..

Carefully structure tour methods of user engagements
  • What do we do? Determine the scope and method of your user engagement.
  • How? Will you conduct in-depth interviews, quick surveys, or observe classrooms in action?
  • Why? Each method offers different insights and requires varying levels of resources and time commitment. Consider the balance between depth of insight and practical constraints.

Explore other options

Select this option!

If you..

Carefully structure tour methods of user engagements
  • What do we do? Determine the scope and method of your user engagement.
  • How? Will you conduct in-depth interviews, quick surveys, or observe classrooms in action?
  • Why? Each method offers different insights and requires varying levels of resources and time commitment. Consider the balance between depth of insight and practical constraints.