UVER – Universities Aggregator mobile app

Research

Before diving into wireframing, we conducted rounds of essential research. During the weeks, we studied competitors intensely, conducted market research, and talked to the users who had already been using such applications and those who hadn`t.

Wireframing

We created high-fidelity wireframes to make sure our users would not get confused or blocked by the things they don’t understand. We started working on the wireframes with all the reports from the research stage. We agreed on having two iterations of them, and each iteration had to be tested with users. By the way, we always follow such an approach because it helps us to save our time in the future and the client to save their money.

So, completing all the iterations and tests resulted in a user-friendly application with straightforward features.

Working on this project gave us a lot of interesting insights about students and the whole education industry. Some of them are:

• 58% of students prefer state universities more than private ones (42%) because of the education quality. Some students answered they had chosen private universities only for prestige.
• Students are more likely to select those universities or colleges with campuses.
• Studying in the USA is twice more popular as studying in the EU or Canada.

And also we conducted interviews with our users and received the following data:

• The number of applications sent by one student increased by almost 40%.
• Students spend 50% less time filling out applications.
• The process of enrolling accelerated by 62%.
• The load on consultants during enrollment decreased by 38%.

In the future, we plan to develop our application and scale it for specific countries as MVP, but we continue researching now.