ColumBuddy
After months of staying at home, making new friends might not be as easy as it used to be for them. Columbia Buddy (ColumBuddy) comes as an alternative solution/ platform for Columbia students to meet new people and find a buddy to study together.
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Codepen link: https://codepen.io/yz3938/pen/JjrJGMy
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Brainstorm important functions & Computational thinking
Use Miro board to draw down main functions and decide what page, button, and connection are needed.
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Design requirements
We identified a list of design requirements to address the problem statement. Most notably, the solution needs to:
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Help users login with their student ID
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Help users find study buddies based on their preferences.
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Help users evaluate experiences and let them decide whether they want to study with that person again
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Allow users to choose their own study buddy based on other users' profile
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Prototyping
Homepage
Mathcing Page
Contact Page
Evaluation Page
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Testing & Iteration
Main page-- only includes homepage information. Users need to log in for matching study buddies
Users will only see this page when they click on sign-up button. After a student create an account, they can go to the next page and fill out their availability to find a study buddy
Users will fill out time, location and preference on this page.
The system will find users who match users' information from database and match them up!
Last but not the least, letting users evaluate their experience is always important.
