2024
Find your room. Find your group.
A learning companion for campus.
A learning companion for campus.
StudyBuddy
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/ˈjuːnɪ ˈnævɪɡeɪtə/As part of my last semester, this Bachelor project served as a practical group assignment within the Media Informatics curriculum. Designed for the module “Interaction Design & User Experience”, StudyBuddy focuses on enhancing collaborative learning on campus — helping students navigate the university, find available study rooms and connect with the right study groups. The app was shaped by the user-centered design process (Harper et al. 2008), and the slides below offer a look behind the scenes at how much effort went into creating it.
Highlights
Process
Designed with users,
not just for them.
Storyboards 🖼️ Storyboards mapped out the everyday situations students face on campus — arriving between lectures, hunting for a free room, meeting a study group — so the design could respond to real moments rather than abstract features.
Personas 🧑🧒🧒 Personas captured the distinct kinds of students StudyBuddy serves, keeping their goals, contexts and frustrations front of mind throughout the design process.
Flow Models 🌊 Flow models traced how information and coordination move between students, rooms and groups, revealing where the app could remove friction from collaborative learning.
Evaluation
Tested with people,
refined with evidence.
Task Structure Models 📊 Task structure models broke down the key user goals — like finding a room or joining a group — into clear, ordered steps, so the interface could match the way students actually think about each task.
Evaluation 📋 A heuristic evaluation identified usability problems in the interface design, while usability testing put the product in front of real users — turning observations into concrete improvements.