Project Overview

Project Vision and Goals

Sokana Collective is a Doula Agency that aids with training doulas to support people with all aspects of their fertility journey.

The purpose of this redesign is to maintain the current design as much as possible while integrating user-friendly practices. This involves developing an online training academy for Sokana’s Doulas. The Sokana Collective Training Academy will serve to make doula training for existing and aspiring doulas more accessible.

The feature we focused on adding to the website was a new courses page. Users can log in and view the courses they own, as well as browse and purchase new courses. A short preview of each course is given before being prompted to pay to further watch the course.

Target Audience

Our target audience is people who are interested in childbirth and doula education. Info should be easily searchable for the target audience, allowing doula training for existing and aspiring doulas to be accessible.

Other users include admins who may want to edit page features and add or modify courses in the training academy.

Key Features of the Redesign

Feature	Why it matters
Home page	Utilizes user-friendly practices for a professional first impression to users.
Admin login	Allows admins add or edit attributes of online courses.
User login	Allows users to watch courses they already own and pay for new courses.
Courses page	Allows users to see previews of courses they are interested in, as well as provide a brief description of the course content.

Tech Stack

Frontend

Framework	Purpose
React	UI components.
React Router v7	Navigation across pages.
styled-components	Styling components.
Supabase	Authentication.
Vercel	Deployment of the frontend app.

Backend

Framework	Purpose
Node.js, Express	Server-side logic.
PostgreSQL	Used via Supabase for database.
ESLint, Prettier	Consistent code formatting.
Render	Hosting for backend services.