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POLLUX 2023

(BATCH 2026)

OUR PORTAL

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PROBLEM STATEMENT

BACKGROUND RESEARCH

SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE

DESIGN CHALLENGES

‘HMW’ QUESTIONS

INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE

BUSINESS IMPACT

USER FEEDBACK

KEY LEARNINGS

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PROBLEM STATEMENT

Perform a UX Case Study on a portal for students of IGDTUW to share their achievements-

For UX Design Track

The planned website intends to give female students at the Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women (IGDTUW) a forum to showcase their technological accomplishments. The goal of this initiative is to dispel the myth that women lack technical aptitude and to highlight the skills and achievements of these female students to a wider audience.

The portal must have the following highlights:

• User-friendly: easily showcase their work with minimal effort
• Easy to navigate
• Relevant categories: such as computer science, engineering, or data science
• Aesthetic: dark, holographic or neon theme
• Tailored: to the specific needs and preferences of IGDTUW students
• Inclusive: of all students, regardless of race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic background
• Scalable and able to handle a large volume of users: as it will be used by a large number of students and staff at the university.
• Privacy settings; so that students can choose to share their achievements publicly or with a selective group of individuals.

Our team presents a platform for you to flaunt your hard-earned achievements in the male-dominated field of tech!

The aim is to bring us exposure and to show our talents to people all over the globe. Kick away the bindings of stereotypes, and show recruiters and talent-seekers all over the world what awaits them in this glorious coming-of-age era of Feminism.

Come forward to show them that you are so much more than what they expect you to be. Help us figure out what you want, what you need and what you expect from this portal!

Raise awareness to the heights from which mighty forces accept us to be the superior warriors in this cut-throat world of tech!

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BACKGROUND RESEARCH

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• Background research for an achievement portal for college would involve looking at existing platforms that are currently in use by other colleges and universities.

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• This research would include analyzing the features and functionality of these portals, as well as studying user feedback and reviews.

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• One example of an existing platform is e-portfolio systems, which are web-based platforms that allow students to create personal portfolios of their learning experiences and achievements.

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• These e-portfolio systems often include features such as the ability to upload documents and multimedia, and tools for reflection and self-assessment.

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• E-portfolio systems like Digication, Taskstream, and PebblePad are widely used by colleges and universities to help students document and showcase their achievements.

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• Finally, it would be important to research the potential impact of an achievement portal on student outcomes, such as career readiness and graduate school acceptance.

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• Studies on how students who use these portals fare in the job market or in graduate school admissions would be key to understand the effectiveness of the portal.

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• This research would provide valuable insights into how an achievement portal can benefit college students and justify the investment made by the college to implement the portal.

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• Overall, the background research for an achievement portal for college should include a thorough analysis of existing platforms such as e-portfolio systems and LMS, user research, and studies on the impact of these portals on student outcomes.

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• It is a crucial step to ensure the successful implementation and usage of the portal by the students and the success of the portal in promoting student achievement.

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• Another example is the Learning Management System (LMS) which are widely adopted in educational institutions, some LMS such as Blackboard, Canvas, and Moodle have built-in portfolios for students and teachers to showcase their achievements and learning progress.

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• These LMS allow students to easily document their progress and achievements throughout their college career, and provides them with a centralized location to share their portfolio with others.

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• Research on the use of e-portfolios and LMS in higher education has shown that they can have a positive impact on student engagement, motivation, and self-reflection. Additionally, e-portfolios have been found to be effective in helping students to develop digital literacies and communication skills.

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• A study by the Babson Survey Group found that students who use e-portfolios in their college education have better job prospects and are better prepared for the workforce.

SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE

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SUMMARY

TOTAL NUMBER OF RESPONSES: 10

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QUESTION 1: Shows that 100% of survey participants were students of IGDTUW.

QUESTION 2: Shows that 40% of participants believe that there is a dire need for an achievement portal for IGDTUW students.

QUESTION 3: Shows that 80% of participants believe that an achievement-showcasing portal will result in more placement offers from companies world-wide.

QUESTION 4: Shows that 100% of participants believe that an achievement-showcasing portal will help in connecting with people based on similar skills, for the purpose of forming coding teams, etc.

QUESTION 5: Shows that 70% of participants would prefer having an option to make their achievements private, i.e., visible only to you or with the people they are connected with personally on the portal itself.

QUESTION 6: 90% of the participants would want an option to chat with other people on the portal without disclosing personal contact information for safety reasons.

QUESTION 7: 100% of the participants would prefer to have a AI-powered Bot that suggested paid or unpaid job titled relevant to the user’s achievements.

DESIGN

CHALLENGES

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The various challenges faced during the development of the project are:

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1. Interactive Design: Designing a visually attractive, easy to use and Interactive website/ application is very challenging. It requires analytical, critical and creative thinking. The benefit of this is that the user does not get confused while navigating through the website and it increases the trust so more and more IGDTUW students will interact with website..

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• Knowledge Constraint: The developers lack of knowledge can also act as a barrier to a good application/website. Wrong knowledge may also be harmful.

Challenges

3. Portable design: A website/application that is compatible with all OS, works in both iOS and android makes it more preferred. Different users with various systems or brands can access the website/ application which will increase the reach and popularity of the app.

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4. Optimization: Including so many features create a very big source code so optimization is a hefty task. A well optimised code helps in better management, requires less space and works faster.

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5. Recommendation algorithm: The recommendations provided to people upon searching for a particular skill was also among the list of difficult tasks.

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6. Personalization: Personalizing the content for a user becomes a challenge which requires various algorithms. It helps provide a better user experience and more and more students will put up their achievements and can also acquire knowledge about what they should do by referring to others achievements.

7. Bugs: The bugs encountered at any level of app development can act as a de-motivation and a very big challenge. Fixing bugs helps in learning and gives us the satisfaction. It helps improve user experience.

Fixes

The possible fixes or solutions for these challenges are:

1. Proper testing: Proper testing of code is the best method to check whether we are getting the desired result and to also find various bugs. Various people can run the same piece of code which will expose them to new logics and different bugs that they have not encountered before.

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• Feedback loop: To provide the best user experience feedback loop should be used. It gives us an idea about the users opinion and their suggestions can be used to make the website/application better.

3. Optimized design: An optimized design helps in making the website more portable. This can include making images and links lighter, eliminating pop ups etc. With optimization one is free to add more features within less space.

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4. Open Source Code: Open source code from open source software can be used for various algorithms which are difficult to code ,such as the recommendation algorithm. This will also help us learn and ease out the challenge.

5. Taking Advice: If the developer is stuck somewhere he/she can ask a friend/senior or even search the net to overcome the challenge.

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6. Documentation: Referring to the documentation can help cover the lack of knowledge.

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‘HOW MIGHT WE’ QUESTIONS

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The various ‘How Might We’ questions that helped us generate ideas and make a better application/website are listed below:

1. HMW make the app more user friendly
2. HMW provide the best user experience to the students
3. HMW make uploading certificates/achievements easy
4. HMW make a more personalised experience for the user
5. HMW maintain the privacy of the user
6. HMW help our user to navigate easily through the website
7. HMW use less space in users device

8. HMW optimize the performance of our application or website.

9. ·HMW provide more job / internship opportunities for our users.

10. HMW provide personalised suggestions to user according to their needs.

11. HMW give suggestions to the users according to their activity or preference of skills.

12. HMW help people with the same skill to interact easily

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Possible answers for these HMW questions can be:

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1. By simplifying the website.
2. By providing a how to use video or documentation to help the user.
3. By using data analysis and machine learning for recommendation and personalization.
4. By running codes on different devices to make it more portable and error free.

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5. By optimizing the code so that it takes up less space on user’s device.

6. By using feedback loop.

7. By providing filters so that the user can filter the content suggested to them.

8. By implementing a review and rating system to get user feedback.

INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE

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MEANING & AIM

• Information architecture (IA) means organizing, structuring, and labelling content of a website or application in an effective and sustainable way.
• Information architecture aims at organizing content so that users would easily adjust to the functionality of the product and could find everything they need without big effort.
• The content structure depends on various factors.
• First of all, we consider the specifics of the target audience needs because IA puts user satisfaction as a priority.
• Also, the structure depends on the type of the product and the offers companies have.

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IA ELEMENTS OF THE PORTAL

In a portal for students of IGDTUW to share their achievements, the information architecture would include the following elements :

• Homepage : This serves as the first page users see when they visit the portal. The first and most impactful impression about the overall appearance and ease of navigation of the portal will depend on the homepage. It would include options to navigate through the portal using functionalities like browse categories, searching for people and awards, accessing account information, bots, contacting mentors, settings and many more.
• New user registration & login: This option lets you create your account on the portal or sign in onto your existing account. IGDTUW students, teachers, companies, hiring and working professionals can sign up on the portal. For students, only the registered domain email ids and phone numbers of IGDTUW students would be allowed access.

• Awards: Various categories of awards will be available in a drop-down menu and further subdivisions are made on basis of the domain in which award is received. Under this tab the top achievers, what they got the award for, their tips and the organisations offering those opportunities and recognitions would be displayed.

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• Scholarships: This tab shows various scholarships received by the students of IGDTUW, the amount of scholarship, and the organisation offering that scholarship. The student experience after receiving the scholarship and the benefits incurred due to it are also a part of this section.
• Innovations: This tab shows the new innovations by IGDTUW students and the fields in which they were made. The impact and implementation are briefly displayed, complete details can be seen by a redirecting link. The experience and journey of the students is also implicitly mentioned.
• Research paper publications: Research papers published by the college’s students along with their authors, grants, topics, citations , etc are displayed in this section. Also faculty’s papers are shown so that students interested in that field of research can approach them.

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• Patents: This tab displays the patent number, title, authors(innovator and applicant) and patent office. The complete details of the patent can be viewed through a redirecting link given along.
• Search and filter : This option will allow the user (students /companies /teachers) to search for students with specific achievements. They can search a particular category ko achievement and see the top achievers. Applying filters like graduation year, branch, project domain , etc can be helpful for students seeking guidance and companies hiring students.
• Add new achievement: This option is only visible after login. This allows student to add any new achievement to their profile. This works like a new post feature. Any updation to your list of achievements can be made through this feature.

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• Profile: Under this tab student can review their profile. They can check for their achievements, add profile photo, designation in college societies, add their batch and branch ,and update their personal details.
• Eligibility and Offers: Under this section of the portal, students can check the awards and scholarships they are eligible for. They can see the tests, forms and entrances for applying to scholarships. They can check whether they are eligible for writing a paper under a particular topic or author depending on their existing skill set. Any company offering internships in their field can also be checked out for.
• Contact Mentor: This option allows user to select a field or domain and find mentors who can help them bag achievements in the same. Mentors are basically students who have already excelled in the field or faculty members.

• Bot: This is an Artificial Intelligence enabled bot that will give you the most suitably filtered information depending on what you asked it for. It will suggest you mentors and show students with particular set of achievements that we require.
• Find People with similar interests : This option allows user to connect with peers having similar areas of interest and expertise. They can thus find people to form teams for competitions, hackathons, paper writing , etc.
• Settings : Here the user can personalise the portal and change some settings like-
• Privacy – this allows you to regulate whether you want to show your achievements to everyone or only teachers and professionals.
• Archive - using this option user can archive or remove their achievements for some time, without them getting deleted from the database. They can be brought back to the profile whenever the user wants.

Portal’s Information

Architecture Preview

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BUSINESS IMPACT

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• An achievements app made for college students could have a positive impact on businesses by providing a platform for companies to advertise and market their products or services to a targeted group of students.
• The app could also be used as a tool for employers to identify and recruit top talent from among the student population.
• The app could be used to help students build and showcase their skills and experiences, which may help them to find internships or job opportunities after graduation.
• The app could benefit businesses by providing a way to connect with students, identify potential employees, and help students to build their resumes.

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USER FEEDBACK

1. How easy was it for you to navigate through the website?
2. Was it easy for you to upload your certificates/achievements in the profile?
3. Were you suggested people and achievements of other people according to your preferences?
4. Was the site design appealing to you?
5. Was the Chatbot helpful ?
6. Were you able to connect with the people who share the same interests or skills with you?
7. Was it a worthwhile experience for you?

8. How interactive was the website?

9. Did you encounter any issues while using the app?

10. Were you able to resolve your problems?

11. Did it take a lot of time to upload certificates?

12. Were the notifications clearly visible and functional?

13. Are there any more changes that you would like to see in the

application/website?

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KEY LEARNINGS

1. Importance of user research and testing: It is crucial to understand the needs and goals of the target users in order to design a useful and user-friendly achievement sharing portal.

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• Collaboration and communication: Achieving a successful outcome requires effective communication and collaboration among team members, including developers, designers, and project managers.

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• Importance of data privacy and security: Developing a platform that allows students to share personal information requires careful consideration of data privacy and security measures to protect users' information.

4. Flexibility and scalability: The portal should be flexible and scalable to accommodate future changes and additions.

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5. User engagement and retention: To ensure the continued use and success of the portal, strategies for user engagement and retention should be developed and implemented.

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6. Technical skills such as programming languages and tools and web development.

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7. Project management skills such as planning, execution, monitoring and controlling the project.

OUR TEAM

AAROHI SHARMA

ARUSHI ARORA

Branch : AI&ML

Graduation Year 2026

PRISHA VIRMANI

SOMYA SAGAR

Branch : AI&ML

Graduation Year 2026

Branch : AI&ML

Graduation Year 2026

Branch : AI&ML

Graduation Year 2026

THANK YOU!