A smart mobile app to help busy teachers

Kickboard is an education-tech company working on software to create safe and happy schools. Their product team faced a problem: in the process of digital transformation how do you figure out what to build on mobile? Teachers told them the desktop app wasn't lightweight enough on mobile devices but rebuilding the entire feature set there didn't make sense. They also knew engagement was spotty: some teachers used their platform and some didn't. So we jumped in with a design sprint to figure out what functionality a mobile app should have to best support teachers.
The mobile app increased engagement as we were hoping. Based on that success Jen Medbery, the Kickboard CEO, wanted to refresh the web application. Like many web applications the Kickboard platform had grown organically and felt like a mishmash of features cobbled together. To create a modular platform to which things can easily be added going forward, we chose React/Redux as our technology and tied into the APIs we created.