Outcome
The Musica Viva in Schools project stands as a testament to effective and thoughtful product design and deployment. Despite its challenging complexities, the program was launched across Australia in a timely manner, and required only a minimum of rework and QA fixes during the rollout phase.
The project's success was due in part to the foresight in creating a Business Objectives Sheet that outlined initial targets and allowed for the flexible addition and removal of goals as the product lifecycle evolved. A critical win was the crowdsourcing feature of the app, which was rapidly embraced and integrated into the teaching practices of educators across the nation.
Now, three years after its launch, the web application remains an active and valued tool in schools across Australia. Ongoing updates and revisions, informed by the original roadmap, ensure that the app continues to provide value and evolve with the changing needs of its users.
Case Studies
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Musica Viva
The Project
The Musica Viva In Schools initiative is one of the most far-reaching music education programs in Australia, engaging roughly 280,000 students each year. At its inception, Hostworks served as the key Design and Software Development partner to Musica Viva.
The Context
As a non-profit organisation, Musica Viva aimed to streamline and automate its communication processes with students, parents, and school officials to reduce operational overhead. The organization also aimed to shift from a traditional model to a crowdsourcing one, aspiring to become an interactive platform for educators to share lessons and learning experiences tied to specific content.
The Role
As the Lead UX Designer, my role was to spearhead the discovery and design phases of the user-centred design process. When I joined the project, there was considerable ambiguity around the project's scale, starting point, and the method of 'downloading' knowledge from subject matter experts. My task was to organise this knowledge effectively to create a commercially viable platform that could be scaled by Musica Viva.
