Prototype: Mobile Course Registration App

COURSE

Interaction Design (17:610:512)

INSTRUCTOR

Matt Johnson

DESIGN BRIEF

Working in collaboration with fellow student Von Arzu, this project was to produce a prototype for a personalized mobile app for Rutgers students that would allow them to register for and withdraw from classes, keep track of course requirements, special permission requests, etc. using their cell phones.

DESIGN TASKS

Draft and submit design proposal
Conduct preliminary user research interviews
Develop user personas and journey maps
Create low and high-fidelity prototypes

TOOLS USED

Axure, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator

LINKS

Storyboard: The Course Selection Process at Rutgers (PDF)

User Research Interview Objective and Interview Questions (PDF)

Prototype Report – Pre-User Testing (PDF)

Final Prototype Revision Notes (PDF)

Process: Defining the Problem

Presentation to highlight the inefficiency of the current course registration process at Rutgers and the need for a well-designed mobile app. Link to slide deck (PDF)

For the project, we created two personas to illustrate the need for the app.

Process: Proposing a Solution

After conducting interviews with potential users (interview objectives and questions here (PDF)), we built an interactive prototype using Axure and produced a report / manual showing how our app would help Maya one of our user personas in her registration process (link to full report here (PDF)).