Re-designed finals week class schedule to fulfill better dissemination of information and dynamically update records. Previously, all text entries were done by hand for a full week's worth of final presentations.

Design Decisions

Information

Consulting with the teachers led to the insight that students would like more ownership over the schedule. The idea of including presentation titles was agreed upon, and I provided a visual design that displays the presenter's name and their chosen title for each time slot in a clutterfree fashion.

Layout

I treated this schedule like a map that helps students know where to go. With this idea, I surfaced the "legend" as the primary method to orientate the students. The legend was integrated into one central bar of information and removed all repetitive information.

Color

The calendar had to be seen from a distance so I increased the contrast by chosing softer background colors with a dark font color. In addition, the schedule had to be legible as a black & white printout — this saved costs associated with color printing. Finally, I included hues, saturations, and textures that were color-blind accessible.

Technology

A schedule prototype was created in excel to test how each report can by dynamically populated from one master worksheet. This prototype also showcased how the final system would operate while also eliminating duplicate, manual entry on each report . Using this prototype help me interally sell the new calendar system and obtain design feedback from staff and students.