Streamlined
A 2-person website and app project to help simplify the schedule-making and schedule sharing process for university students, across multiple platforms.
User Research
Methods
CARD SORT
The card sort method is used to label certain application functions, features, attributes, and allow the users to organize the cards in a way that makes most sense for them to use. This allows us designers to understand which functions, features, and attributes certain users prefer or use in an application in order to make it a successful use for them.
COLLAGE
The purpose of this method is to get an idea of what the users are feeling or thinking about or associate items with when they interact with the original application. The images could be random stock images, with no meaningful connection to one another. When the user selects the images and creates a collage, it allows the designers to understand and visualize the user’s perspectives or understandings around certain issues or complex ideas from the application. The user would then explain the significance of the photos and associate it with the problems to help designers come up with solutions or ideas.
INTERVIEW
This method tracks what a user does when they are using an existing product. By listing the user’s inputs and decisions, we can determine where the product falls short in the user’s goals. This allows us to design a solution that addresses these demands.
This method allows us to figure out how users interact with the only existing application that allows them to build a schedule.
Findings
Persona + Journey Map
Based off the information gathered during the research stage, we created a persona, Helen Spicer. We mapped out her personality and habits. Then we expanded into creating a journey map based off our research participants' experiences using sites like Wolverine Access, Atlas, and the LSA Course Guide.
Main Task Flow
Search based on friends' schedules
Mobile Version
Designed in Adobe XD
Profile
User’s profile view, where they can see their travel mode preferences, notification and address settings, and see friend requests.
Friends
Users can view their friends list and search for people to send friend requests to. They can also view a friend's profile to see their schedule.
Schedule
View schedule for different terms in both calendar and list mode. Users can also share their entire schedules and individual courses by exporting to camera roll or to other external apps.
Share with Friends
Share schedules with friends within the app to avoid losing friends’ schedules to the user’s camera roll or messages history.
Map
Users can map their route directly to their next course or they can plan ahead. This can be done by choosing a university building as the start/end point, by choosing a course location, or by getting a route suggested based on the preferred transportation mode.
Desktop Version
Designed in Adobe XD
Profile
View a detailed list of the user’s courses and see their schedule in calendar and list mode. The user can also see and create draft schedules.
Browse Courses
Browse by interest:
Users can choose interests that influence what courses are suggested to them. They can then add these courses to their schedule drafts.
Browse by past courses:
See previously taken courses and add new courses to a user’s schedule drafts based on the suggestions.
Friends
Add friends:
Add friends to a schedule draft so everyone can see where their classes align. Users can add up to 4 friends to plan a schedule.
Match courses:
See what courses a friend has scheduled. Users can then add the course to their own schedule draft.