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Summary
Product vision
Mature students might need to balance their academic life with other needs and aspects of their lives. I propose a website to offer time-management help improve their academic life and experience.
Users problem
Mature students face the convergence of their personal careers and student careers. Users have a limited amount of energy and therefore need clearer time and energy management.
Definition
Mature student is usually used when referring to anyone going to university or college after a period of time out of full-time education, being used to describe a person who has undergraduate course after 21. They usually need to maintain a balance between account academic life and other things .
The simple story offers a useful starting point for identifying their problems.
Problem& Painpoints
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A relatively isolated learning environment
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Distance learning Lack of sense of atmosphere
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More demanding tasks than the average student
Idea generation
A platform/website to connect and help mature students.
It will first show recognition and support for who they are and how they behave and finally boost confidence with some encouragement.
Interview
New insight:
motivation in a group setting
The result of the interview indicates that a more engaging environment is needed. Thus I designed a community that offers help.
“I'm not very good at organising my time and tasks myself, but I'm more efficient when I'm in a group.”
“Yeah I think the community program sounds like a great opportunity for mature students to work on their time management skills in a collaborative and supportive environment. As a mature student myself, I know firsthand how challenging it can be to juggle multiple responsibilities and still stay on top of coursework. The idea of having a structured program with a weekly cycle and a buddy system is very appealing to me.”
Development
Features: Forum and Community
The Community is a short-term program for mature students. It is limited to 10-20 participants, lasts for 4 weeks only and aims to improve their time management skills and techniques by working with a small number of people, culminating in personal reflection and sharing of experiences.
In the Forum, users can share experience and their stories. All mature students can have a common place to relax, release their stress and learn more techniques of time management.
Webpage design
