Study planner tool
Pain point: People studying for the CA Program have lots of choice and complexity to plan. There are many subjects offered often, pre and co requisites to consider, and their personal and worklife calendars to plan around.
Plotting all the subjects they want to study, when they want to study them from a paper based time-table with hundreds of possible permeations is hard.
Solution: A simple tool to solve a challenging planning problem.
We made planning easier by doing all the hard maths stuff behind the scenes in clever code.
We ask users 7 simple questions up front. The tool uses these answers to refine the data and to then plot an accurate programme of study; observing all the pre-co requisite study rules, only plotting subjects in the terms they are offered, AND it plots the fastest way to complete that study too. (Customers want to complete their study as quickly as possible to be eligible for significant pay increases at work. Study can be 3 years+ duration - but if planned well can be completed in 2.
Try it the tool here: https://www.charteredaccountantsanz.com/become-a-member/plan-your-study
Interacting with the planner allows users to delete, swap or add new subjects or to extend their study by adding years. All the good stuff for those that change their mind!
Helpful tool tips along the way if they forget to do something along the way.
Challenges:
Working within an existing website structure and CSS.
Getting an MVP out fast so we could test with real users.
My Role:
Ideation, prototyping, design, and PM.
Now focussed on a roadmap to maintain and improve the tool over time, based on user feedback.
Collaborators:
Milan Kapisi - Code Genius, creative problem solver and Dab hand at CSS.
Tracy Richardson - Does the tricky tight-rope walk of championing users needs and business needs with perfect balance, and, has a knack for remembering functionality specs in her head over long periods of time.
Great little MVP project encompassing, research, ideation, UX, UI, collaboration AND delivery which as been utilised with very minimal upgrades for 3 years now pretty much as per MVP. There is a road map of future improvements but to be honest it works beautifully without.
