Unimatch
The uniqueness of this application, compared to similar ones discovered during the benchmarking phase, is the ability to enter the credits earned during the undergraduate degree and personal aspirations into the profile, so that the system can calculate the compatibility of this information with the characteristics of the listed master’s programs. Once the information is entered into the profile, Unimatch presents the list of master’s programs with their compatibility marked by a symbol: green, yellow, or red. In the case of non-maximal compatibility (yellow or red), the application summarizes and shows the missing requirements to access the master’s program in question, in case the student wants to recover them and apply. Otherwise, the system can also function as a filter, allowing the student to focus directly on the master’s programs with maximum compatibility (green). In cases where there are multiple compatible master’s programs with the student’s profile, the system allows them to compare them side by side (up to a maximum of three, showing only their main information) to make both the search and the selection more efficient and faster.
The prototype
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The process
Benchmark and user research
The project started with a thorough domain analysis phase, which included both a competitor research and a series of interviews conducted with various university students, professors, and career guidance psychologists.
Personas
The data was collected and synthesized into models to understand how different users might interact with our application and what distinguished them in terms of needs and requirements.
Conceptualization, Ontologies, and Taxonomies
Other models were created to gather the various requirements that our application needed to have. The requirements were derived by analyzing the user stories that emerged from the personas.
Prototype
The solution was materialized in an interactive prototype created with Figma.