Study Seeker is a responsive web app that helps students find the best match for a potential study partner.

Why?

In Spring 2022 at UB, I took CSE 370: a course covering various frontend and UI/UX topics including responsive design, typography, style guides, usability testing, A/B testing, globalization and localization, and design patterns.

Similar to Zeal from the previous semester, we were assigned to complete a social media web app as a team of five by the end of the semester. We were also assigned a student project manager that would help us complete the project using Agile common practices including sprints, scrums, and user story and task management through Kanban boards.

The plan

After some discussion, our group decided to create a web app that makes it easier for students to find study buddies. It would have features such as profile pages with reviews, connections, groups, and course-specific pages.

The tech stack of the project was pre-determined and restricted by the class. We were only allowed to use pure React and CSS Modules for the front end and Swagger API for the back end.

What we did

This time, I decided early on to take the leadership role due to my prior experience in Zeal and having the most technical expertise in the group.

Throughout the four sprints of the project (each sprint occurred every two weeks) I was involved with a variety of tasks and responsibilities which included

We also completed an end-of-semester class presentation that introduced our project to peers and reflected on the entire journey.

Result