Xinyi Guo's Portfolio
Course Registration System
I spent a month designing and prototyping a course registration system for mobile platforms. This system reorganized the original CMU registration system and combined the searching site and registration site together into an integrated system.
This is a school case study to evaluate, propose, and prototype ideas for a digital system/product.
The project is a UI/UX design challenge, and is done solely.
Project Goal:
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Design an integrated course registration system for CMU.
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The system includes course searching, calendar planning, and student academic information for course registration purposes (registered, waitlisted, dropped).
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This system is designed for mobile platforms.
Problem Definition:
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Currently, course searching and course registration are divided into 2 websites, students are not able to look up courses while planning courses and manage registrations in an integrated system.
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There are too many excessive pages and entrances for course registration and calendars for users to manage and look at.
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The information for registration purposes is not divided properly.
Course schedule / registration info
Course search
Design Feature:
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Highly integrate course searching, semester calendars, course planning, and academic information together into one system.
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Optimize user experience in the course planning process, registration process, and searching process.
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Reduce excessive information and pages in the original websites, and reorganize information segments.
Original System workflow:
New System workflow:
Wireframe:
UI Design:
The entire design is following the CMU brand guidelines.
Reflections:
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It was challenging to redivide information segments and choose what to display in this new system, especially since there aren’t many competitive products in the market.
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For further development, I will focus on adding features that the CMU registration website doesn’t have, like adding course registration probabilities for each course.
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I will also consider developing a website demo for this system as well because many students still prefer using the website to complete the registration process.