Group Reflection

Looking back at these nine weeks, we went from a group of three strangers to a collaborative and productive group of students working towards a common goal. We learned the steps of user-centered design and practiced it in weekly assignments and in our final project. Overall, it was a great project experience.

 

If we had more time, we would have liked to build a page that contains the current status of all the jobs that the user has applied for. This feature would allow the user to easily keep track of their progress in one place as well as improve the fluency and user experience of our website. This idea was inspired from another group’s presentation. Additionally, we would like to improve the overall design of the website and implement more fully featured job recommendation functions. Another idea we have is to implement responsive design to our website to work better on devices like phones and tablets with smaller screen sizes.

 

Our biggest challenge was to differentiate our website from other existing job searching websites. Nowadays, the job searching websites such LinkedIn and Handshake are very comprehensive, but we took advantage of the alumni network in the University of Washington and integrated it into the job searching system. We believed that alumni are easy for users to talk to and build connections with.