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Team

5 undergraduate students

Skills

Secondary Research User Interview Personas Wireframing Ideation Journey Mapping Lean Experiment

Tools

Miro Figma

Timeline

August 2023 - December 2023

Summary

For the entirety of the semester long class, our group chose to tackle this prompt:

Design a tool or system that helps students create and manage personalized learning pathways, accounting for different learning styles and paces.

We decided to narrow down the prompt into a problem statement that addressed a specific demographic on the UIUC campus, addressing an issue prevalent among these students.

Once we decided our problem, we were tasked with using the design thinking process to determine a fitting solution according to user needs.

Final Problem Statement

Freshmen struggle with adjusting to academic workload, rigor, and pace while transitioning from high school to college

<aside> 🔸 How might we assist freshmen in adjusting to the college academic workload with new class types and study habits?

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Final Solution: Canvas Plug-in

The Process

Initial Research

In order to understand the prompt better and to figure out what our problem statement should be, we did an initial deep dive into what learning styles are.

Key takeaways:

1. There are three types of learning styles: kinetic, visual, auditory