Blender

A platform for new students and experienced ones to exchange their skills and improve mutually.

Blender gives opportunity to connect with students inside the campus to organize meetings or study groups and mutually provide and receive tutoring to create strong and lasting collaborations inside an academic environment.

PROBLEM

New and old students are always looking for improvement; therefore, they need peer review or just some help to improve their abilities, learning from someone with more experience or more skilled.

RESEARCH

Would you like to create more community network inside the school?
"Yes definitely, meeting new students with a different approach to problem-solving and different skills during the Adobe Creative Jam was really interesting."

Would you like to take part in multi-major projects and collaborative classes?
"I already had some connections with other departments and it has always been a great time, working together with different people that have different strengths."

Would you like more connections between different school majors?
"That would be really cool, but in short project would be too hard to match different schedules, and so far we are encouraged to have a wide range of skills."

How might we create lasting and productive collaborative connections inside a school campus?

SOLUTION

Creating new connections inside the school via app, matching people that feel confident in one subject with someone that need help in it and vice versa. This could be a trick to go back to real social interaction and to gather people. However, to prevent people from taking advantage of it each other, in order to receive help without providing it back, everyone will have to prove their proficiency in their strong subject (grade evaluation) and after each session partecipant will rate each other to demonstrate their mutual interest and effort.

MATCH WITH A
STUDY COMPANION

SEARCH AND
SCHEDULE MEETINGS

TARGET AUDIENCE

PRIMARY

New students looking for help and advice for their degree progress, and create networking.

SECONDARY

Seasoned students that need collaboration with other peers for bigger projects.

PERSONA

Ray
Marie
GOALS

Connect with other students. Find out about classes he should attend and the best schedule to follow.

FRUSTRATIONS

Difficultiesin getting valuable feedback. Because of work he can’t attend some workshops or meetings.

GOALS

Find a study partner to polish and fix her previous projects. Cooperate to build bigger projects for her portfolio.

FRUSTRATIONS

Can’t find a person to schedule enough time for a longer period to build a whole project together.

SKETCHES

INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE

FLOW 1

Ray wants to attend a meeting for a study group, at first he looks for any meeting available and then he ends up creating a new one, setting the time location and topic.

FLOW 2

Marie is looking for a partner to complete a project she need help with, so she sets the preferences in order to look someone that culd provide help and need help in her selected area of expertise.

FINAL DESIGN

Looking for already scheduled workshops and meeting with other students, with different time options for every class. Otherwise, posting a new meeting with a specifying topic, any extra detail, timing and location.

Providing help in the topic you feel more comfortable with to ask for help where you need the most, in that case, will be possible matching with the perfect study buddy.

STYLE GUIDE

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REFLECTION

From this project I learned the importance of starting without preconception and learning from interviews and then i also found out that even when the need is evident the solution might be tricky.