Tutera
connecting helpful tutors to hardworking students
3
Rounds of user testing
8
Weeks taken to create the project
1
Best in studio award
What is it?
Tutera is a mobile web-app created to help connect local tutors to hardworking students. It is a prototype created for the introductory human computer interaction class at Stanford.
My role
As a team of four, we performed the needfinding, user interviews, and sketching phases of the project together. Afterwards, I worked with one of the team members to create the web-app. She primarily focused on the front-end and design while I primarily worked on the back-end and the interaction between the front-end and back-end.
The Process
Our design process began with user interviews. We knew we wanted to create something in the tutoring space, so we interviewed a diverse set of tutors, tutees, and parents of tutees to try and learn about their needs.
After analyzing the needs we encountered, we began brainstorming different solutions to the problem of connecting tutors with tutees. We picked our top idea, and created a concept video to further explore our potential solution.
Next, we began sketching different ideas for the scenarios of finding a tutor and registering as a tutor.
After receiving feedback on our sketches, we refined our design and created a medium-fidelity interactive prototype. You can find it here.
Many user tests and revisions later, we created our final designs and turned them into code, resulting in our final prototype as a web app. You can find it here.
