Literacy Suite Design Handbook

As a Production Designer on Amplify’s Literacy Design Team, I was tasked with creating a comprehensive design style guide for all core components including Teacher Guides, Activity Books, Readers, and several print and digital Ancillary materials. This was a long term project that I led in collaboration with other Production Designers on the team from 2024-2026. We first began by creating a series of style guide decks for each component which was then turned into a Design Handbook website accessible to cross-functional teams at Amplify.

Component Specs

This Component Specs deck that I created documents all of the GK-5 Literacy Product broader component file specs. This includes all cover and interior page dimensions, binding method, and margin/ bleed information. The Design team often references this deck in order to onboard new designers to the Visual and Production Design teams.

Teacher Guide Style Guide

I created this comprehensive style guide for the K-5 Literacy design team to reference which highlights all specifications needed to understand the design of Amplify CKLA Teacher Guide books. The Design team often references this deck in order to onboard new designers to the Visual and Production Design teams. This style guide covers everything from product look and feel to a index of all style sheets (paragraph and character styles) implemented in the Teacher Guide books. This deck in conjunction with the Teacher Guide templates that I created is much needed documentation for the Design team to reference when creating or editing a Teacher Guide.