Brainstorming

During our initial brainstorm, we reflected on our experiences as students
by discussing spaces, systems, and programs that currently exist at UC San
Diego. We generated a long list of student experience issues that we felt
could be improved, and then narrowed them down to just a few items:

Getting Ready For Liftoff

We’ve reached the halfway point of the quarter, and students have already received an email for 2015 Fall Quarter Enrollment from the Office of the Registrar. For some, this email will just be sent to the trash. For others, this reminder starts the process in deciding what classes…

Four Years

Four years. Then you’re out. On your own in the real word.
College is a transformative journey, often said to be the best four years
of one’s life — a time for opening your mind to new ideas, pursuing
passions, and a time for self-discovery. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime
experience, but it’s only four years, and…

Data is the Name of the Game

Data is the name of the game this week. Survey results are in and we were able to finally quantify some of the problems students share when planning their four years here at UCSD. Some of our broader findings revealed a consensus that the majority of people agree that a four…

Delving Deeper

This week we decided to delve deeper into the kinds of users our four-year planner would encounter by creating personas and storyboards. We focused on three different types of students that we thought would find the planner most useful.

Parallel Prototype Testing

Last week we had a couple different iterations of our four year planner that each of us brought to class. This week we decided to take those multiple designs iterations out in to the real world for testing in parallel. The reason why we chose to test a couple different versions at…

Planning, Prototyping, Plunging into the Unknown

This week we divided and conquered. Each group member created his or her own prototype that honed in on a specific design element that we are going to be testing this week. The different types of prototypes included a class icon, on-boarding…

Testing leads to failure. Failure leads to understanding. Understanding
leads to improvement.

Through testing, our prototypes are constantly improving. This week, we
tested various prototypes on different audiences. We harnessed inVision, a
tool that allowed us to make clickable prototypes that…

Digging Deeper

Last week, we spent our time testing our own individual prototypes. We found some great insights and we spent this week figuring out which components of our prototypes worked and figuring out ways to improve them.