500Historias
Summary
500Historias is a ConectAldea EdTech initiative that empowers youth through writing and reading by combining digital storytelling, community participation, and gamified voting.
Highlights
- Increased youth engagement with reading and writing by building a gamified ranking system where students can rank community-written stories. — Gamified community ranking as the product hook for youth reading / writing engagement
- Mapped user expectations and regional EdTech references through UX research and discovery.
- Designed navigation and interface flows in Figma before implementation.
- Built and tested a mobile prototype with students in Panamá, incorporating interview feedback into iterations. — Validated through student testing in Panamanian schools
- Ran production cycles with performance, security and functional QA checks before launch.