College campuses today grapple with a fragmented communication landscape, leaving students and alumni ill-equipped to succeed. Existing communication channels, such as email lists, WhatsApp groups, and disparate social media platforms, lack structure and create significant challenges:

    • Information Overload: Students are overwhelmed by a constant influx of irrelevant information, making it difficult to find crucial academic resources, event updates, and career opportunities.

    • Dispersed Information: Critical information like academic calendars, syllabi, and important deadlines are scattered across multiple platforms, leading to confusion and missed opportunities.

    • Inefficient Collaboration: Existing platforms hinder effective communication and collaboration between students, faculty, and alumni, limiting knowledge sharing and peer support.

    • Limited Networking Opportunities: Students struggle to connect with relevant alumni for mentorship, internships, and project collaborations, hindering their career development.

    • Low Alumni Engagement: Alumni lack a dedicated platform to connect with the current student body, share industry insights, and contribute to their alma mater.

This fragmented communication environment creates a significant barrier to student success and limits the potential for meaningful alumni engagement. Design a social media web app for the task.

Improving Janic.in's User Experience with Clear Navigation and Information Hierarchy

Janic.in's website confuses potential students with complex navigation, unclear information, and dense course descriptions. This frustrates users, leading to lost leads and a tarnished brand image. We need a website redesign that prioritizes clear navigation, a user-friendly information hierarchy, and concise content to improve user experience and generate leads.

    • Navigation Nightmare: Overly complex menus and sub-menus create a labyrinthine experience, making it difficult for visitors to find the information they need quickly. Key pages like course listings, pricing details, and contact information are buried deep within the website's structure.

    • Information Overload: The website lacks a clear visual hierarchy, bombarding users with an overwhelming amount of information. Important details like pricing and schedules are not prioritized, making it challenging for users to understand Janic.in's offerings.

    • Dense Course Descriptions: Course descriptions are lengthy and dense, failing to provide concise summaries of key takeaways and benefits. This lack of clarity hinders user comprehension and makes it difficult for prospective students to make informed decisions.

    • Hidden Calls to Action: Critical calls to action, such as "Register Now" or "Contact Us," are not prominent or strategically placed. This lack of clear direction discourages users from taking the next step and engaging with Janic.in.

    • Inconsistent Design: Inconsistent use of typography, color schemes, and layout elements creates a visually unappealing and unprofessional website. This inconsistency undermines Janic.in's brand identity and creates a negative user experience.

    • The website should include Home, About, Course, Contact Us, MS-CIT Page, SMS Service, and Hardware/Web Design pages.

The current website design is a significant barrier to Janic.in's success. A redesign that prioritizes clear navigation, a user-friendly information hierarchy, concise content, and prominent calls to action is essential to improve user experience, generate leads, and achieve Janic.in's business goals.

Objective: Design a user-centric and visually appealing app for NutriGen, an AI-powered nutritional app that empowers users to make informed food choices. NutriGen will leverage advanced technologies like OCR, LLM, and Generative AI to provide personalized nutrition guidance.

Your Mission:

Within 24 hours, create an intuitive and engaging user interface for NutriGen. Your design should seamlessly integrate key features:

Key Features to Design:

1. Food Input & Analysis:

        ◦ Enable users to input food items through manual entry, barcode scanning, or photo uploads.

        ◦ Provide a clear and concise nutritional analysis dashboard displaying ingredients, calorie counts, macronutrient breakdown, micronutrient levels, and a "Nutrimeter" for quick visual assessment.

2. Personalized Insights:

        ◦ Categorize food items based on dietary preferences (vegan, keto, etc.), food types, and health tags (low-calorie, high-protein).

        ◦ Offer personalized food recommendations and alternative suggestions based on user profiles, medical history, and health goals.

3. User-Centric Experience:

        ◦ Design a clean and secure user profile section for inputting medical history, dietary preferences, and health goals.

        ◦ Integrate Generative AI to generate personalized meal plans, creative food alternatives, and engaging nutritional insights.

4. Recipe Exploration:

        ◦ Showcase visually appealing recipe cards with step-by-step instructions and nutritional information based on scanned or uploaded food items.

5. Brand Identity:

        ◦ Develop a cohesive brand identity for NutriGen, including a modern and minimalist logo, color palette, typography, and iconography that reflects the app's health and wellness focus.

User Personas:

    • Health-Conscious Individual: Seeks to track daily calorie intake and macronutrients.

    • Medical Condition User: Requires personalized recommendations for conditions like diabetes or hypertension.

    • Fitness Enthusiast: Aims to optimize diet for muscle gain or weight loss.

    • Busy Professional: Needs quick and healthy food alternatives and recipes.

Deliverables:

1. Wireframes: Low-delity sketches of key screens and user ows.

2. High-Fidelity Mockups: Detailed visual designs of the app’s interface. 

3. Interactive Prototype: A clickable prototype demonstrating the app’s functionality. 

4. Design System: A comprehensive design system including typography, color palette, icons, and UI components. 

5. Presentation: A 5-minute pitch explaining your design decisions, user ows, and how your solution addresses the problem statement.

Background:

UXHack is a platform that regularly hosts design hackathons. One of their weekly events, called "Weekend Hackathons," challenges participants to improve a single screen of an existing product.

The Challenge:

UXHack wants to make it easier for participants to get feedback on their designs. They plan to use Generative AI to automatically generate feedback for the designs submitted in these events. The goal is to make this feedback easy to understand and helpful for designers to improve their work.

They've already built a prototype of the feedback system (you can check it out in the Figma link below), but they need your help to make it better. Your task is to improve the design of the system, both in terms of the user interface (UI) and the way the feedback is shown to the participants.

What You Need to Do:

• Review the prototype linked below.
• Improve the user flow (how users interact with the system) and the UI design (how everything looks and feels).
• Make the feedback clearer and more useful for the designers who will use the platform.
• Optional: Do some research on other platforms or tools that give feedback, and suggest features or design ideas that could be helpful. You could also talk to students and young designers to understand their needs and preferences better.

Deliverables:

• A Figma design file with your improvements.
• A clickable prototype (if possible) that shows how users would interact with the new design.

Reference Prototype: Design Prototype link
Reference design file: Design file