How do you feel about your housing community?
Many people described a barrier in the housing process due to the lack of communication with administration, facilities, and others in their housing community. While there are spaces across campus for gatherings that can better the residential experience, they are often underutilized and under promoted. After speaking to students at Williams College, we noticed common themes were centered around the fact that housing logistics and information were difficult for all these students to deal with because of poor communication, and also that there were no social spaces within their housing communities due to barriers for creating these spaces.
Let's Send Out Events!
The goal of RES is to increase knowledge of these events throughout a college campus to connect individuals within a housing community, and allow them to learn more about their living environments. People can share events they are hosting and therefore notify others within that quad or neighborhood; facilities and housing authorities will also have access to the application and therefore be informed of these events as well.
Watch RES in action!
Our Design Process
We used an iterative design process to refine the details of our final design. After understanding the problem, we conducted contextual inquiries and analyzed tasks to become more familiar with the problem and user demographics. Using the feedback from our tests, we went through many paper prototypes before creating our final design.Our design went through multiple changes because our original prototypes did not provide an inuititve interface for our users. This final design was made possible because we experimented with low-fidelity paper prototyping .
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