CourseGrab

A situation that is too familiar to Cornell students is clicking add classes during class enrollment and being faced with error messages that you are unable to add the classes due to them already being full.

Current Solution

Students at Cornell currently rely on the website CourseGrab to track classes. They must find the specific Course ID for the section they are interested in tracking and add it through the website. When a course opens up they receive an email regarding the availability, urging them to visit Student Center to try and enroll. After they are must manually visit the website to stop tracking the course. They are also limited to tracking 3 courses at a given time. Though this system is currently used by thousands of students each semester, the notification system is inefficient in notifying students about class openings and relies on students using outside resources to find the courses they want to track.

Classes and Sections

Tracking Course Card

Search

Design A and B both featured a search box. Design B and D were both similar in their use of the top header. However during design critique the feedback I got was that the affordances in design B regarding search were unnecessary and cluttered the search experience. Design D also allowed for the interaction to be smooth when transitioning from the home screen.

Final Solution

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Designing the Icon

Key Takeaways

Looking Forward

After being able to ship the MVP on Android and iOS, we will be able to explore greater functionality in the future. Since we were under a tight timeline to ship and last semester was cut short by COVID-19 we hope to run user testing sessions and collect user feedback next semester, We also will look to iterate on ways to display a section’s popularity based on how many people are currently tracking a given section as well as revamping the web version of CourseGrab to be 1:1 to our mobile MVP.