Bespoke simulation
I collaborated with other team members in the design of a learning simulation card game and for that we won a professional Staff Award for Best collaboration.
The challenge
Halfway through 2020, a member of faculty reached out to the Edtech Lab for support with an activity that was no longer possible because of Covid-19: a simulation to teach how to trade financially. We understood this was a valuable exercise for the students.
The solution
Two other colleagues and I decided to form a small team to help this faculty, taking on the challenge of building an online simulation game completely from scratch. It was an ambitious project which involved a lot of planning and coordination: not only programming and testing the game itself, but also deciding what the game would look like, making the website intuitive and the text clear and easy to understand. Despite these not being our main professional activities, my colleagues and I worked on the graphics and the prototypes, and the senior developer covered the programming part all by himself.
The result
The more than a hundred hours we all dedicated to this creative project were worth it: we were able to produce a fully-functional and visually appealing simulation, which received a lot of praise from faculty has been released to (~225 students) on modules across two programmes. The project was awarded for excellence in collaboration – making a significant and positive impact supporting students and faculty.
Tools used
Visual studio code, Figma, Notion, Adobe Illustrator, Miro