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Legacy design history posts
A summary of where to find our legacy design history posts, from pre-December.
Early years child development training
31 March 2023
Making it easier for users to monitor module progress
We created a way for users to monitor their progress through a module, by adding a new feature and iterating some existing pages.
Early years child development training
4 April 2023
Helping users to delete their accounts
We added a way for users to be able to delete their accounts, if they decided they no longer wanted to use the service.
Early years child development training
5 April 2023
Making the training more engaging with downloadable resources
Whilst exploring ways to make the training more engaging, we tested a way for users to download additional resources and tested various resources they might want to use.
Early years child development training
11 April 2023
Allowing users to share the training with other people on social media
We explored a way for users to share the training with other interested people using social media.
Early years child development training
11 April 2023
Exploring what users mean by 'engaging and interactive'
We ran an in-person co-design workshop with users to find out what they meant when they said they wanted the training to be more engaging and interactive.
Early years child development training
10 April 2023
Standardising the design and formatting of infographics
In order to improve user experience, we looked at creating a standard design approach to the inclusion of infographics and diagrams within the training content.
Early years child development training
31 August 2023
New features to support the user journey within the training
We looked at additional features that would support users in completing the training content in any order.
Early years child development training
21 November 2023
Improving the training progress bar component
We looked at ways which we could improve the initial progress bar component and connected user experience.
Early years child development training
30 November 2023
Improving the user experience for downloading a module certificate
The team identified some improvements that could be made around the pattern used when presenting the end of module certificate to a user.
Early years child development training
17 June 2024
Redesigning the Help for early years providers website
We redesigned the Help for early years providers website in direct response to user feedback and to improve the information architecture for a growing amount of content.
Help for early years providers
3 July 2024
Improving the user experience for completing a module using audio
User research identified that users could find the training difficult to complete, due to the amount of reading they must do. Many of our users have requested an audio feature.
Early years child development training
30 July 2024
How we are approaching prototyping
Understanding how expert users think about complex, ambiguous data and how they want to work with it to meet their needs
Check an early years qualification
2 September 2024
Deciding between a search-based or question-based approach
How the team dealt with a key decision point in our beta phase
Check an early years qualification
23 September 2024