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Post Secondary applications are already a high stress ordeal to begin with. Streamlining applications into one portal reduces the complication for both students and post secondary administrators. My role was to make an enjoyable user experience for students of all backgrounds regardless of technical literacy, background or financial means. 

Solution

1. Restructuring the pages into more logical groupings
2. Standardizing design patterns and components so users can intuitively figure out what a page would do or behave based only on visual cues 
3. Using consistent language in order to make users expend less energy on decision making to discern what a component would do. 
4. Decreasing visual clutter on the page by strategically hiding or minimizing less necessary information.
5. Creating more system feedback to the user in order to self diagnose issues.
6. Creating more integrated help systems to give the user agency to help themselves without tech support intervention.

This project allows both the marketing department at EduationPlanner BC to create pages without needing the development departments intervention. The data also integrates in from the Management Console Administrative panel I designed, which allows university admins to control the data that is displayed to prospective students.

“It’s hard to find the features I’m looking for “

“I can’t tell if [this page] is able to do what I need”

“Too much is on the page at once I don’t know what to do”