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Find specialized online learning communities
Meet the right learning buddies
Engage effectively in virtual classroom
Join easily searchable communities formed by relatable people. They can make learning fun. Together you get the work done!
Find, connect, and make friends with talented people in your neighborhood. Build personal relationships with experts and peers.
Real-time messaging and live chat unlock instant discussions and feedback.
01- Overview
02- Problem
Online learners cannot have real-time discussions with, gain real-time feedback from, and build selected personal relationships with instructors or peers
- Q&A forums, slack channels are noisy and are made of all sorts of people
- Existing communication tools are slow in giving feedback and answering questions
- Hard to establish personal and personalized relationships
- Online learners struggle to finish courses started
BuzzzNow is a product that help people Find, chat, engage, make friends with, and get help from subject matter experts and relatable learning buddies in real time within hyper-specific online learning communities.
03- Research
Competitor Analysis
We looked into the market and analyzed six existing online platforms to see if these products can help the online learners to find their online learning community and find their learning buddies.
social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website.
Facebook Group
group communication for people to share interests and express opinions.
Meetup
organize online groups that host events for people with similar interests.
Amino
network of communities lets you explore the things you're into.
Slack
team collaboration app for work.
GroupMe
Group messaging for family, friends, coworkers, classmates, etc. Share pics, videos Like messages .
Persona
Driven online learners
College students and developing professionals who are heavily enrolled in online classes
Instructors
Creators and teachers of the class who want to increase the class engagement and gain students' real-time feedback.
SME and KOLS
Experts and small businesses who want to build 1000 true fans and monetize their expertise and content.
04- Hypothesis
- Online learners want to quickly find or form relatable communities with people who share certain - similarity
- Online learners want to have real-time discussions with virtual or real-world classmates while the instructors are talking
- Instructors want to have collect students’ feedback, comments, and questions in real-time manner and understand the overall atmosphere of the classroom
05- User Story
06- User Flow
07- Design Challenges
How did we make the design decisions and iteration?
1. Can we get users' study information through a fast and easy onboarding?
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Version2
Findings
-Giving too many steps and selections for the first time users will make them impatient to get onboard.
-Users prefered to input more course and study information after they've experienced the app.
-There should be a hierarchy in getting balance between making simple onboarding and have enough users' information to let system provide recommendations
2. How can we retain the users on our products to chat rather than transferring to other their familiar platforms?
Version1
Version2
Version3
Version4
Findings
-Most user expressed they prefer to use live chatrooms than the big study group for discussion. So there should be an easy access to small chats.
-Users like to interact with familiar chat interface. But in terms of our structure, it has to be unique. Users should able to shift easily between several chats(Group chat, live chatrooms and buddy chats).
-General notification is not content users concerned about. They think the mentions inside the chats are more important as information in the mentions are striking. Giving this feature obvious, users may get response faster.
08- Hifi Prototype
Onboarding
You can easily set up your account. Getting through 3 easy steps to add your online or schools classes, so that we can provide you with better group recommendation.
Join your learning community
Based on the same class, there are global and local study groups for you to choose. Once you joining the group, you can communicate with your classmate, ask questions, video chatting and study together.
Find your classmates
By getting recommendation for online and in school classmates, you can find your learning buddies, study together with them and know each others' learning status.
In each groups, you can create your buzzz rooms to chat with your classmates about homework, course related projects, job interviews or off-line meetups. You can enjoy real-time instant messaging and live chat to communicate with your group members.
Create your buzzz rooms
Track your study
Buzzznow will help you easily track your study status by doing "study now". It gathers the students to be in the study now group automatically, you will have instant communication with all your classmates who are currently studying.
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