AWS Partner Learning Path Tool

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- Background -

Organizations need individuals with cloud skills to help transform their business. AWS Training and Certification helps partners build and validate cloud skills. The content is built by experts at AWS and updated regularly to keep pace with AWS updates, so partners can be sure they’re learning the latest and keeping partner's cloud skills fresh. AWS offers both digital and classroom trainings, so partners can choose to learn online at their own pace or learn best practices from an instructor. Whether they are just starting out, building on existing IT skills, or sharpening cloud knowledge, AWS Training and Certification can help them be more effective and do more in the cloud.

Roles:
Art Director
Lead Designer

Teams:
Development
Copywriting
Analytics

Date:
April, 2019

- Challenge -

Create an intuitive and interactive web based tool for Amazon’s growing partner network to search and discover educational courses based on their specific roles. Our three main goals were:

  1. Create a simple, on-brand, tool that effectively provides the needed courses of a specific focus.

  2. Design should be easily and quickly updatable by AWS team.

  3. Visually on-brand from lead pages.

- Questions -

  • Who will use this tool?

  • What is the most important information required?

  • What backgrounds do the users have or need?

  • What are required courses?

  • What are recommended courses?

  • Where does this tool live within the website’s partner network navigation?

  • What is the benefit of the course and its description?

  • When do the courses take place?

  • Why is each class important?

  • How to make this tool user friendly and intuitive within the AWS brand standards?

- Process -

Leveraging the AWS web team, we were able to gain indispensable knowledge about existing user experience navigation. My main focus was create wireframes, pitch findings, and deliver layouts that would effectively communicate the required information. It was imperative to work hand-in-hand with my copywriting and development teams to discover how to best streamline the information, format the database, and condense the information in a consistent way.

- Concepts -

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Concept 1 “Tabs”

This concept leverages Amazon’s Tabbed rectangles.

The information is stacked max three tabs wide and is sorted by the most important “required” courses first and “Recommended” courses last.

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Concept 2 “Wide Boxes”

This concept leverages Amazon’s full length responsive box design on grey background.

The information is single stacked and like the “Tabs” layout is sorted by the “required” courses first and “Recommended” courses last.

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Concept 3 “Open Text”

This concept is the least restrictive and most responsive of all three concepts. With no bounding box the course descriptors can be a myriad of lengths without looking bulky. This design utilizes alternating gray backgrounds to differentiate the courses and features a floating register button to the right and would have snapped under the description for mobile views.

- Conclusion -

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After working collaboratively with the AWS team through three rounds of review we all agreed that the “Wide Boxes” concept would best support all of the variable information the courses required. Most importantly, it provided a common workflow for existing users, familiar with AWS’s environments, to easily navigate. We flushed-out any outstanding concerns like troubleshooting any prerequisite course requirements and enabling a user to print results. We then finalized the modular wireframes and delivered to Development team for coding and final export. Live site can be found here!

Overall, it was an honor to work and learn from the AWS team. They were super supportive and excited to get this project off the ground!