Problem Statement
Each year thousands of refugees are forced to leave their homeland to escape political turmoil,
natural disasters, war , and more often than not death. Leaving everything behind, these refugees move into new communities with
little understanding of the resources made available to them. Our goal is to help these refugees and international students by utilizing existing
learning resources and promote academic connections, sparking their intellectual growth in a foreign country.
Our Solution
Globridge is an online community supported by teachers and volunteers to help publish professional
and user-generated resources while accommodating all languages, race, cultures, and backgrounds to unite it’s students into a common goal: to expand their learning.
The goal of the site is to limit the amount of interactions to prevent users from being overloaded
with information and overwhelmed by their technological ability. Globridge is designed to have low barriers of entry,
so that even those without extended online experience should be able to navigate through the website.
Final Prototype
Home Page
This is the primary home page when visiting Globridge.
Create Account
This page gathers information from the user to customize the website content to be more relevant to them.
Register for Lectures
The user can type keywords, choose a filter, and navigate through recommended/hot/liked to find the courses they’re interested in and register for those courses.
Documents Page
Along with lecture courses, users can view an abundance of online materials through this document section.
Videos Page
This page provides video content for students that cannont attend in-person lectures or want to learn at their own pace.
Profile Page
This page gives the user some statistics to track their progress and feel that they are working towards their academic goals.
Design Process Insights
- Test on people that your design would indirectly affect
- Paper prototype many different ideas, from different people
- Don’t have any expectations when going into usability tests
- Have good sense of your plan before moving to a digital high-fidelity prototype