a yellow background with kids palying and the Sesame site on a computer and a phone at the front

Applying cutting-edge tech to an iconic brand

Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, reaches children in over 150 countries worldwide. But to help extend their reach to more kids in rural areas with low-bandwidth access to the internet, Sesame asked Modus to create a new international technology framework and enterprise design system for web and native mobile apps. The goal: Deliver award-winning children’s content and structured curriculum in a single, easy-to-navigate platform, optimized for multiple languages.

Our solution started with the underlying technology, including:

  • Drupal deployed as a headless CMS
  • Amazon Web Services – Cloudformation, Cloudfront, EC2, Docker, S3, Lambda
  • Bitbucket
  • Bamboo for code & build management
  • Bitrise for Mobile app builds & deployment

Based on this technical foundation, we expanded and upgraded the user experience for three groups of stakeholders (children, caregivers, and educators) by designing, developing, and launching easy-to-manage web, responsive mobile, and native apps for iOS and Android.

The result is a single, reusable framework that can be deployed in any language, in any country, and supports fully localized content. By leveraging Amazon’s latest solutions, content creators and producers have the ability to spin up content and updates in any region in the world in a matter of minutes.

    The cookie monster and Elmo in a green and white background with a computer and phones with the Sesame site in it.
    3 mobile sesame screens
    sesame site on a tablet
    sesame site on a tablet
    Elmo with green background and mobile devices

    Webby Awards Honoree / Web Excellence Award / Fast Company Innovation by Design Award

    Sesame site by Modus on a phone and a tablet
    Sesame Design System examples
    A woman huging her daughter
    Quotes

    You made this process miles easier than we could have dreamed.

    Breonna Rodriguez  /  Sr. Design Director

    Bert y Ernie From Sesame Street playing in the right and a computer screen with the Sesame site in the left

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