Product Design
Prototyping

Deploying a scheduling feature at UniversityNow

My Role

Product Designer

My Responsibilities

Full stack design (end-to-end)
Prototyping
Wireframes
Research

Team

1 PM
2 Engineers
2 Enrollment Advisors

Duration

4 weeks

Background

UniversityNow was the parent company of two online universities. As part of the student growth team I worked with admissions to design and develop a scheduling system for perspective students to easily speak with an advisor. 

Problem

The purpose of this project was to design an accessible workflow for prospective students to schedule an appointment to speak with an advisor. I paper prototyped and conducted usability studies to insure the workflow fit a user’s mental model. I iterated on visual design and after more testing, designed and launched the complete workflow.

Process

Facilitation

I lead sticky note and sketching exercises with several of the enrollment advisors to understand their challenges with scheduling. 

Prototyping 

Low fidelity paper prototypes for communicating with the team

Wireframing

Low fidelity wireframes allowed me to run a user study using Usertesting.com

 

Visual Design

Exploring divergent visual design directions

Deliverables 

After more testing to validate the workflow, I designed the entire workflow from start to finish

Final Feature Release