Designing Minds
Designing Minds turns teacher-made tests, summaries and assessment material into a clear online catalogue that parents can browse, buy and download. I designed and built the shop, customer account, checkout and publishing tools as one connected product.
Making the catalogue easy to understand
Parents usually arrive with a practical question: what can I use to help a child in a particular grade, subject or term? The catalogue is organised around that question. Resources can be explored by grade, subject, term and format, with plain descriptions that explain what is included before anyone reaches checkout.
CAPS is written out as South Africa’s Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement wherever the meaning matters. That small choice helps parents who know the school system but not the acronym, and it gives search and answer engines a clearer account of what each resource is for.
Buying once, finding it again
The product supports single resources, discounted bundles and access plans without turning the buying journey into a subscription puzzle. A customer can see what a package contains, pay once and return to the order whenever the files are needed again.
Downloads live with the order that unlocked them. That keeps receipts, purchases and files in one place, and avoids creating a separate downloads area that customers have to learn and remember.
A store the team can run
The public shop is only half of the work. The administration side gives the team a structured way to publish products, set prices, group resources into bundles and manage the information customers rely on. Orders, payments and customer records stay visible without being treated as editable website content.
That separation matters. It gives the team control over the catalogue while protecting the operational records that should only ever be created by the system.