is an application designed to help
Curtin Students
(specifically first years) with managing their
Enrolment, Payments
and
Timetable.
This project was a redo of the existing
student management system
known as the 'Curtin Oasis'.
One of the many things you hear around Curtin is undoubtful how much everyone
hates the Oasis Website. Whether this is due to: the enrolling system, sanctions,
navigation or even the ugly colour scheme, someone always finds something wrong
with the website. Although most people dislike it, no one hates it more than first
year students (regardless of language capabilities) who are the ones that
must experience the Oasis website for the first time.
The solution: an iPad/Kiosk application (dedicated to first
year students), that is tailored to the users’ personal needs and allows students to find
relevant and useful information in one place.
To do this, conducting a series of
interviews lasting between 10 to 30 minutes with around 8 different people should
be enough to collect information on what exactly students hate about the website
and how it can be improved. In the future, techniques like shadowing and observing
users using a future prototype will be used to gather more data. Users will be
grouped by age, gender, international or national and year of study (some students
beyond first year could give information about their experience in first year).
For the most part the interviews went quite smoothly. Being that I mostly was acquainted (either on first name basis or at least had seen them around) with the interviewees helped them open up a little with their answers and encouraged them to be more honest as well as the interviews not being nearly as awkward.