UConnect

Inspiration

From personal experience, we felt a barrier learning through. Although we had a desire to get closer to our fellow classmates, we were hesitant to reach out through zoom. Also, in our non-school environment, we found it hard to concentrate and focus on our schoolwork. In addition, we often found ourselves lacking motivation.

What it does

UConnect allows for easy connections and communication with your classmates with no additional costs. We found it important to produce an easy, cheap way to communicate especially with what is going on in the world.

How we built it

Using Figma, we first created an outline of the primary pages and their key functions. From those pages, we made more pages that we thought were essential in showing others how the app would work. Finally, we added some finishing touches by adding design and color to the app.

Challenges we ran into

Due to our limited experience, we were unable to hard code our app. Because of this, we were chose to use the prototyping tool, Figma, as it was the one we were most familiar with. We were also challenged when deciding which pages/features we wanted to and include.

What we learned

Though we were unable to hard code anything, we were still able to learn the thought process designer and app developers go through when designing an app. We learned about how designers needed to place and shape certain buttons on certain areas of the page so that it didn’t ruin the page aesthetics and wouldn’t confuse users. In addition, we also learned about how developers needed to decide which parts of their overall idea should be included in the app.

What's next for UConnect

Our goal for UConnectis to produce a working app with more possible features and to include more schools/universities in UConnect.

Built With

• figma