Elleyne Kase started out in advertising in the San Francisco Bay Area, California after graduating with a BA in Graphic Design from San Jose State University. She has many years of design experience in a variety of venues and media. She finds book design one of the most rewarding. Elleyne is the creator of the Visual Quick Notes series for financial professionals, and she found the chance to expand into graduate test prep an exciting opportunity:The process of designing the LifeLine for ACT/SAT began as a total immersion into the ACT/SAT world. From beginning to end I was the ACT/SAT student making my way through the content, skill by skill, task by task. I attended the classes, worked the problems, and participated in the group solution-on-the-board process with Ron and the other students. The added challenge for me--my own exam level puzzle--was establishing a primarily verbal-based curriculum into concrete written form, and from there, creating an easy to follow self-study graphic framework, that could be used in book or other media. Starting from transcripts of class lectures, the content was molded and the graphic structure took form.

The sheer level of hierarchy was more than usually encountered in a project which, combined with the variety of concepts, was the first level of challenge. Adding to that, drills and quizzes on right hand pages, solutions on left ones, made for demanding criteria indeed. All that considered, in time we made our way to what is in hand today, a ACT/SATstudy tool we are confident will help those preparing to take the exam achieve their academic goals.