Working Group Portal for the Nellie Mae Education Foundation

This members-only portal, built as a new feature on top of an existing public WordPress site, allowed members to request to join one or multiple groups where they could communicate via forums moderated by group leaders. Additionally, group leaders could publish pages within their group, and all members could add events to a shared group calendar, manage their individual profiles and “favorite” resources from the main, non-password protected site. I gathered requirements and planned a technical approach that used BuddyPress, bbPress and additional plugins, augmented with custom code. Much of the design work involved iterating and visually deprioritizing or removing out-of-the-box customization options for page and post publishing to maintain an easy-to-use end product.

Project role: UX design, digital strategy