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Students often navigate classes, mentors, peer groups, internships, and career advice across disconnected systems. Next Step brings those needs into one mobile experience built around timely, personal support.
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The surviving project archive is primarily visual. These screens document the proposed information architecture and product direction; original participant counts and raw study materials are not presented as verified evidence.
Many students enter higher education with career goals but limited personalized guidance. Academic resources, mentors, peer communities, and job opportunities are scattered, making an already demanding transition more isolating.
Poor communication between students, mentors, and counselors can leave people unsure where to ask for help or how to move from coursework toward a career.
I gathered firsthand accounts about time management, communication with professors, academic guidance, and work and life balance.
I asked working professionals about their education, career decisions, and the support they received while studying.
Discussions in student forums surfaced motivation, workload, career uncertainty, and other concerns people may not raise in formal interviews.
Articles and academic resources added context about the difficult transition from graduation into stable career work.
The mobile concept combines peer discovery, study groups, mentors, classes, jobs, and internships. I designed the home as a starting point in Figma, instead of treating each need as a separate portal.
The original retrospective identified two important improvements: spend more time completing the UX process before committing to the interface, and give interview participants more uninterrupted space to explain their experience. Both would make the final solution narrower and better grounded.