Designing and developing a bespoke skills-building web application for kids aged 2 to 15 — connecting young learners with professional mentors through seamless Zoom integration, advanced parent filtering, and secure Stripe payment processing.
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Note on Delivery & Collaboration: While CoLab Works leads the overarching strategy, brand architecture, and digital marketing execution, complex custom builds of this scale are brought to life through our trusted project-by-project development partnership with Elemental—our core tech affiliate. Our team possesses the end-to-end capability to design, architect, and manage any digital build, and this collaboration ensures our clients receive elite enterprise-grade engineering alongside our bespoke design and marketing expertise. View Full Elemental Case Study →
Every problem has a root cause. We find it. The Challenge Disco needed a feature-rich, ultra-intuitive web application built from scratch to host live after-school and weekend learning sessions (known as “Discos”) for children. The platform required multi-tiered user functionality—catering seamlessly to administrators, mentors, parents, and young learners alike.
Strategy before a single line of code is written. The Approach We engineered a dual-sided ecosystem where parents could easily search, filter, and wishlist classes by topic and age group, while children gained access to personalized dashboards, favorite mentors, and interactive leaderboards designed to track progress securely and gamify participation.
Precise delivery. No unnecessary moves.
The Challenge
Disco needed a feature-rich, ultra-intuitive web application built from scratch to host live after-school and weekend learning sessions (known as "Discos") for children. The platform required multi-tiered user functionality—catering seamlessly to administrators, mentors, parents, and young learners alike.
The Approach
We engineered a dual-sided ecosystem where parents could easily search, filter, and wishlist classes by topic and age group, while children gained access to personalized dashboards, favorite mentors, and interactive leaderboards designed to track progress securely and gamify participation.
The Execution
Engineered collaboratively through our specialized tech partnership with Elemental, we built a robust application using Angular, PHP, and CodeIgniter. We integrated Stripe's API directly into the platform to ensure a frictionless onsite checkout experience, alongside deep Zoom API and SDK integrations to power live, remote virtual classrooms.
The strategy landed where it counted — in the market, with the audience and on the screen. Three measurable outcomes from a focused, purposeful engagement.
User.
Experience.
A custom interface designed for intuitive navigation across multi-user roles, providing dedicated portals for parents, mentors, and kids.
Seamless.
Checkout.
Embedded Stripe API payment gateway integration allowed secure, on-site credit card processing without disruptive external redirects.
Performance
