Stanford Carta
DATE JUNE 2021 - PRESENT
UI UX Design Lead, Front-End Engineer
Stanford Carta is a collaborative, student-run course-choosing web platform (15 team members) and is used by 95% of undergraduates on a daily basis.
Our team aim to provide students easy, accessible ways to guide their educational choices.
As a design lead and a front-end engineer, I lead Carta’s design decisions and help dictate website layout. I was one of Carta’s first 3 founding team members.
Problems in University Course Planning:
Complex Yet Little Guidance
Process Complexity = More Stress, Anxiety
Unconscious Bias = Limited Exploration
Overall Goal:
How can we make students prone to exploring?
How can we give students correct information on courses and the importance of certain courses within their possible majors?
How can we expose unknown/unpopular classes towards students?
Collaboration:
Work 3-6 hours a week across 3 different teams of design, front-end, and back-end
Lead 5+ designers to make design decisions
Every project updates are a part of Carta V3, meaning all features the carta team have been working on for the past year are to be launched in Winter 2022 as “Carta V3.”
Carta Expectations:
When implementing a functionality, Carta Design makes sure all small decisions are grounded in research and facts.
We go through meticulous process from user research and interviews (needfinding Interviews + quantitative surveys), User Research Analysis (Peronas, Journey Mapping…), to Lo-fi, Med-fi and Hi-Fi development.
