Timeline: Dec 2023 - Jul 2024
Role: UX Designer
Team: 2 UX Designers, 3 Developers
CIRCLE is the University of Washington’s support office for international students.
It offers programs like Regional Connection Groups (RCG): connects students via region-based communities (WeChat, KakaoTalk, Line, etc.).
The Office works to help students transition smoothly into UW life: academically, socially, and administratively.
With the insights from surveys and interviews, we came up with the following user personas to help us address the feature requests (Photo generated by ChatGPT).
Here are the prototypes with features stem from possible solutions and the user testing along the way.
Expandable notice menu
Urgent deadlines & where to ask for help
Resembles the MyUW portal Notices section, aligning users' existing habits
Upcoming events (horizontal scroll)
Event time, location, spot availability, "save" button
Event detail screen
Event description, sign up button
Onboarding students can view color-coded critical and non-critical events, and view the visualization of event time blocks on a specific day.
The office directory page lists relevant offices to assist onboarding students with navigating the decentralized institution.
The secondary menu shows contact information and links.
