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User Experience Design Capstone for a Website or App

CSUE1030
Closed
York University
York University
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sveta Fedarava
Instructor
3
Timeline
  • November 24, 2024
    Experience start
  • February 2, 2025
    Experience end
Experience
2/2 project matches
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Canada
Any company type
Any industries

Experience scope

Categories
UI design UX design Branding & style guides
Skills
user experience (ux) design relationship building target audience user experience (ux) research
Student goals and capabilities

A well-designed user experience builds trust and loyalty with your target audience. UX design creates a positive and well-defined customer journey. In this project, students will implement the UX design process to provide you with an optimized prototype for your website or app.


Note: Due to the vast amount of applications, I may not be able to respond to all of you. Please be clear about what your organization does and why you would benefit from the students working on your app or website.


The project will begin November 24, 2024 – February 2, 2025

Please note you're required to dedicate a minimum of 1 hour check-in with the student team every week.


Thanks and good luck!

Students

Students
Continuing Education
Beginner levels
12 students
Project
40 hours per student
Students self-assign
Teams of 4
Expected outcomes and deliverables

The final project deliverables will include:

  • A prototype of your website or app.
  • A 30-minute presentation on research, findings, and justifications of the proposed design with a report.
Project timeline
  • November 24, 2024
    Experience start
  • February 2, 2025
    Experience end

Project Examples

Requirements

Based on your organizations goals, students will apply skills in consumer research, wireframing, design, and testing to create a website or app layout that achieves your goals.

Project tasks include:

  • Holding a discovery meeting to understand your needs and develop a project scope.
  • Interviewing users to gather applicable design specs.
  • Conducting user testing to understand and optimize existing design challenges.
  • Applying design thinking theory and practices in creating a prototype.

Example projects include, but are not limited to:

  • Redesigning an existing website, webpage, or app.
  • Designing a new website, webpage, or app.
  • Optimizing user experience of a specific part of a website, webpage, or app.

Schedule (7 Week engagement):

• Teams will have 7 weeks to provide a solution for your organization

Week 1: Project/Problem Statement

Week 2: Design Brief / User Research Plan

Week 3: User Research Report

Week 4: Value Proposition Canvas + 5-10 Concept Sketches

Week 5: Three Concepts Review

Week 6: Testing/ Prototyping Report

Week 7: Zoom: Final Project Solution and Pitch Presentation

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

What challenge is your company tackling and how will a new website/app help solve that?