The document describes a matching app called StudyMates that automatically pairs students in classes as study partners based on their preferences. It is meant to address the problem of students having to manually search pinned posts on Piazza to find compatible partners. The app would immediately match two students based on their available times and locations to make it easier to work together on projects and assignments. A persona of a student named JimBob is provided as an example user who is frustrated with the current process of finding partners on Piazza and would benefit from an automatic matching system.

1. StudyMates
Yeonsoo Kwon, Sai Canchi, Runyu Ding
StudyMates@umich.edu

2. Elevator Pitch
● For: students want to find a partner for a class immediately
● Who are dissatisfied with: shifting through pinned piazza posts to find a
compatible partner
● Our product is a: matching app
● That provides: Students the ability to be matched with a partner that has
similar working preferences
● Unlike: Piazza, students won’t have to find a person they’d like to work
with and reach out themselves
● Our product: Is a matching app that partners up two students
immediately based on their working preferences

3. Persona
JimBob
Jimbob is a Junior at the University of
Michigan. He is a computer science
major and is currently taking 485 and 484,
two partner oriented courses. Jimbob
loves working with partners, however he
doesn’t know anybody in those classes.
He decides to scroll through the pinned
piazza posts to find partners, but the last
3 people he reached out to already found
partners. He is fed up with this process
and would like someone to automatically
find him a partner based on his working
preferences.

4. Use Case
● As a computer science major who is taking two project-heavy courses
● I want to find a partner with matching availability and location
● So that I can finish my project on time and get a decent grade