Case Study — Education

Arisbe

Industry: Education
Type: Nonprofit
Client: Arisbe Education Foundation
Technology: Web
Location: USA

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Saima from Arisbe Education reduced management cost by 66% while increasing workshop frequency by 200% through custom LMS

66%

Decrease in management overhead

300%

Increase in speed of managing workshops

200%

Increase in workshops frequency

$9k

Saved every month

Context & Goal

Saima, founder of Arisbe Education Foundation, a nonprofit startup based out of New Jersey, had hired a software development company to develop their custom Learning Management System (LMS). She had hoped that LMS would help to run their training workshops more frequently and would simultaneously take the management burden off of her.

Business Challenge

Founders problem was

Needed custom Learning Management System (LMS)
Her team was careless, uncommunicative, and irresponsible generalist software development team inept in design & development of end-to-end software
She was frustrated at constantly being unheard, and at significant sum of money wasted

The Plan

Engaged Carte Blanche to

Act as CTO and devise product plan
Redesign user-experience (UX) to bring clarity to confusing and broken flows
Give app visual identity through User-Interface design
Build scalable cloud architecture, frontend and backend

Transformation

Before

After thousands of dollars spent, and 14 months wasted, software didn't achieve the outcomes it was designed for
Software was missing agreed upon scope
Software interface left users confused on how to use it
LMS configurability was very low due to inflexible engineering

After

LMS ready in 6 months; achieving every desired outcome
3x speed gained in managing workshops
$9k & 180 hours saved every month due to decreased overhead
2x increase in workshops frequency

Deliverables

User-Experience (UX) DesignUser-Interface (UI) DesignWeb AppCloud ArchitectureFrontend and Backend of AppTesting/QA

“ They exceeded my expectations in every way! From start to finish, they were professional, responsive, and incredibly skillful at what they do. Their design and engineering skills were absolutely first-rate; the automation in end product has transformed how we run workshops. ”