BUILD is a non-profit organization that uses technology to teach entrepreneurship to disadvantaged students. In short, they stand for everything we believe in. It was our great pleasure to be BUILD’s internal/external digital tech team. We designed and launched three custom websites, a custom e-learning platform, and a “Masterclass” style video series.
How we created a bespoke digital learning platform.
Client
BUILD
Deliverables
Web DevelopmentVideo ProductionLearning Management Systems2D AnimationApp DesignBrandingCustom Wordpress plug-insUI / UX
Aloa is a dream team to work with. They bring expertise, honesty, and motivation to eliminate barriers for marginalized youth. Excited for present and future collaborations!
Marisol B.
Digital Product & Innovation
Custom learning management systems.
BUILD had enormous technical hurdles to overcome. They wanted to create an innovative, blended learning environment that brought the best of digital learning to communities that needed it most. While they had many great offline materials, these ideas had never been properly digitized or organized into an LMS (Learning Management System). We had to bring together the expertise of several different departments to centralize and digitize their work, while improving the look and feel for their major corporate donors.
Engaging thousands of students.
We created an affordable, maintainable LMS that would scale to meet the demands of thousands of students from many different school districts. We were also tasked with making this LMS interact with custom-built BUILD apps and games, creating a seamless hand-off for students with badging and reporting. This required an enormous volume of design, front-end building, and back-end maneuvering to make all the components talk together.
SO IMPRESSIVE. This looks freaking awesome!
WOW!!! Incredible work! 💥
Cindy P.
Director of pathways
A major uplift.
We firmly believe that a brand is more than the sum of its parts. If you have a great product but a clunky website, the component parts won’t add up to something great. We re-imagined every digital touch point of BUILD, from creating an entirely new design language and style guide to rebuilding their large website with dozens of pages and hundreds of blog posts. We wanted to make sure that the content of BUILD’s LMS, website, and all digital imprints reflected the fun, simplicity, and joy of BUILD's remarkable mission.
Design for change.
We loved every minute of working with BUILD, because they are a diverse team of highly empathetic, compassionate, and brilliant people. Our greatest joy is working with people who have a bigger purpose and mission, and everyone from the BUILD team radiates this commitment to the larger goal of teaching incredibly valuable skills to students who are often left behind in the traditional system.
