Breathing Program Educator Hub
A nonprofit focused on improving children's mental health, emotional regulation, and learning through technology-enabled, science-based interventions — with a track record of competitive funding and real-world deployment in schools, hospitals, and community programs — runs a breathing program for elementary school children, delivered through a train-the-trainer and community model. Its implementation experience shows why evidence-based tools often fail outside the lab. Delivering a handoff-ready educator hub concept with onboarding, resource access, and basic reporting views.
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Design a simple, human-centered digital platform that serves as a central hub — a “command center” — for training materials, lesson plans, surveys, communication, and basic implementation support, helping busy educators and program stakeholders deliver the breathing program consistently in elementary schools.
Analyzing the program as a digital implementation platform within the nonprofit's mission and its lessons from prior deployments, with value propositions for teachers, school coordinators, the organization, funders, and researchers. Personas center on elementary school teachers, school coordinators, and a program team member, with empathy maps and a journey from onboarding through accessing lesson plans and videos, delivering breathing activities, and completing surveys. Experience design and UI/UX prototyping only; production development, secure hosting, backend, school system integrations, and formal outcome evaluation are excluded.
A functional website prototype and a high-fidelity iPhone app prototype demonstrating teacher onboarding, access to lesson plans and instructional videos, supporting documentation, surveys, and basic resource or reporting screens, along with the content structure and information architecture for hosting those materials. Delivered with personas, empathy maps, journeys, a prioritized feature list, design files, and handoff documentation clear enough for the organization's own or contracted developers.