MyMajor Redesign
View the full case study on my Medium here Rutgers Redesign Case Study
Background
At Rutgers University, we students utilize MyMajor for changing our major, graduation date, or any certifications. MyMajor is a web application maintained by Rutgers university. It is defined as a “system designed to simplify the management of student’s requests for changes in majors, minors and graduate dates.”(Rutgers) MyMajor completes its purpose of simplifying management, but unfortunately, it becomes confusing for the student to use. My goal today is to maintain the ease of management but also provide students with a better user experience.
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1 Week
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Wireframes
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Figma
Leonardo
Project
Originally, redesigning this page was an exercise in one of our Designer Spaces at Rutgers Blueprint. From there, I decided that I wanted to expand on this topic within a case study and get experience with the research side of things. With my habit of trying to optimize everything, from how dishes are laid out to UX design, this site in particular left my senses tingling. I wanted to make this a much more fluid and visually appealing experience.
For this case study, I utilized Figma and Leonardo. I intended for this to be a short project and to exercise my research capabilities. Therefore, the scope of this project is simply redesigning the login page and main page by myself. Overall, it took around 3 days to complete. Not including my research into creating case studies.
Takeaways
What I learned
After this case study, I obtained a lot of experience connecting my research and thoughts into my interface designs. Before this case study, I would see what was wrong with a site but not necessarily understand it or apply it effectively during the redesign process. Planning and research is highly important in UX design and will greatly optimize the overall process as well as result in a more enjoyable product and design experience.
Areas to Improve on
This case study gave me a lot of experience in research, but I realized that I need to delve deeper into usability research in order to create better products. MyMajor is a website that has a small and focused audience. Other applications and websites will have a variety of consumers in their audience to research and keep in mind.
Next Steps
With the knowledge gained after completing this case study, I saw a few areas that I would have investigated and taken into account if I were to do this redesign again.
Consider reactive design and how this site would look like on a mobile device.
Create a large-scale survey of Rutgers students for user research.
Explore interaction design and how it can factor into this design.