Created a writing tool for college students to edit their grammar, check for plagiarism, and create writing citations for their research papers.
Goals:
Visit community colleges in my area and sit at their bus stops and gathered feedback about what students are going through in their writing journeys.
Results:
I was able to learn that a lot of them were writing between classes. They were mostly using their mobile device to write. I quickly realized that having a mobile version of our writing tool was needed.
Goals:
With the gathered information from surveys and interviews I wanted to create a journey map based on how college students were thinking, feeling, and experiencing writing a research paper.
Results:
I noticed through some interactions and interviews with college students that even writing the first draft was difficult. Students are writing a variety of assignments such as essays, poetries, and research papers. Time is also a vital problem. Students are waiting until the last moment to start writing.
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Goals:
In order for our team to work faster on how we intended to primarily demonstrate functionality, features, content, and user flows I created low fidelity wireframes.
Results:
These drawings were discussed at length with the engineer team. We were able to discuss tradeoffs and painpoints before going into layout testing.
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“It's easier and faster to make changes and dismiss edits on this version.”
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“It's easy to switch between the results and my paper”
While working on this project I really wanted to make sure this tool was accessible for all individuals. Color contrasts were calculated to make sure there was a 3:1ratio. Created tab/focus order for developers to add to the code.
I ran heat map and video capture footage to learn about user behaviors with Hotjar. Continued to optimize the experience by running tests on Google Optimize. I also made survey questions on Qualaroo to ask students how their experience is going while they are writing.
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