Studdy
UX/UI Design
There's no doubt that college is hard, and with proper study habits, keeping up in class can be easier. However, Studdy is a website that allows students to connect with peers at their college who all have the common goal of finding a study group. The website has a straightforward design to make the process of finding and creating groups easy, efficient, and, most importantly, user-friendly.
Duration: 3 Months
Primary Role: UX Generalist
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Taking a Deeper Look

Meet Mai Ngo
Age: 20
Education: High School Diploma
Hometown: Hanoi, Vietnam
Occupation: Student (BS)
Mai is a junior at Arizona State University. She lives on campus, which makes studying in the library and reaching out for help easily accessible. With loads of material to cover, Mai finds it helpful to study with peers, but as an international student, she sometimes feels intimidated creating study groups and reaching out to others.

Meet Bao Lín
Age: 24
Education: Bachelor's Degree
Hometown: Buffalo, NY
Occupation: Student (MS)
Bao is a Master's student who is studying economics at Johns Hopkins. Bao lives roughly twenty minutes from campus, and he spends time at his internship office when he isn't studying. To help understand the material he reads and covers in lectures, Bao likes to practice recall by reviewing what he learned with peers and ensuring that his understanding of the material is firm.
Target Audience: College Students
The Proposed Solution:
A website that connects students from the same campus by allowing them to create meetings, search for both online and in-person meetings, communicate within their group, and manage/review their schedule.
Understanding
Students' Needs
To get an understanding of what students would need to have an overall positive experience, I conducted a remote survey compromised of multiple-choice answers and short-answer responses. Participants were asked to select a number from 1 to 10 (worst to best) to describe their feelings regarding creating study groups and then asked to further explain their reasoning for picking the number they did. Questions that were asked focused on frustrations and lack of access to study groups (ex., How often do you participate in study groups? Do you like study groups? How easy is it for you to organize study groups?)
Findings from the survey:
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Students would like the option to choose online or in-person meetings
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There needs to be a way for students to communicate with one another
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Students need a way to control group size
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Students like organized schedules
From this, I created a sitemap, although I later realized that the layout had some problems.

Translating Into
Designs
While sketching the paper wireframes, I knew I wanted to stick with a more minimalistic design because I knew students preferred an organized design. I then built the low-fidelity prototype closely representing my sketches, but I soon realized that the designs needed to include what users would need. To help understand where my designs could adjust, I conducted an unmoderated, remote usability test to see where frustrations and pain arose. Based on the feedback I received, I began to implement changes. One design iteration I made was to add upcoming meetings to the homepage so that users could quickly view their schedules. With that in mind, it would be beneficial to add a calendar when deciding whether to attend a meeting to see how it will fit into students' plans. Lastly, I have users with the option to receive reminders of upcoming meetings.


Visual Design Aspects
Studdy, a brand welcoming to all students, has an overall welcoming tone, and I wanted to represent that by using warm tones and images. The color scheme I used throughout the website was Tuscany and green. I kept the color scheme in mind for the images and searched for images that blended well with the colors I used. When designing most call-to-action buttons, I used bright colors to draw in the users' eyes.
