The document presents two prototypes for a virtual community to help senior year students gain job experience and income by connecting with employers and recent graduates. Prototype 1 is a social network with forums, photos, and polls for students, employers, and recent graduates. Prototype 2 is a forum-based website with topics to help students with their job search and transition. Both prototypes received positive feedback, but need more development to be truly useful tools. Moving forward, more user testing and feedback would help improve the prototypes.

1. 1 idea – 2 prototypes
• Problem statement
– Senior year school* students looking for a way to
show their capabilities learnt at school and gain some
job experience for their curriculum while getting paid
for it because they need a way of income, and a way
of make a living.
• Idea:
– Create a virtual community (social network) for
sharing experiences from first year employees to
senior year university/college students.
* School = university/college.

2. Testing
• Done with the same people of the interview
on the first activity
• 2 persons were interviewed again, while the
prototype was shown to them.
• Both ppl on their first year of work
– 1 happy in his/her work
– 1 not happy at all

3. Feedback
• All the points from the feedback grid are put
into the “Test prototype…” page
• the most important opinions were included.
• Opinions that appeared more than 1 time
were not included.

4. Prototype 1
• A “social network” style community
– With spaces for
• Uploading topics on a forum
• Uploading pictures
• Create polls
– Where business can create their own profiles for
interact with people on their last year of “school”
– Where people on their first year of working can
share their experiences about
working, workplaces, business, how to prepare for
an interview, etc.

5. Prototype 1
• And where people in need of a way for solving their
doubts about working (e.g. senior year students) can
sing up and interact with different stakeholders.
• Business can use the information gathered to
improve their workplace, or research about the kind
of people that will go to work in a couple of years.

6. Test prototype 1
• “how is this different to linkedin?”
• How will this get famous/popular?
• Which will be the main language used on the
website? (i live in a non english speaking
country)
• Can the site be divided into different topics
(economics, health, math, engineering, langua
ge) according to the needs of the industry?
This can help the business to get involved to a
more specific public

7. Test prototype 1
• This should get more tools, the user should
never get tired of the site.
• You should develop this for cellphones.
• You should emphasise the fact that the main
objective of the site is to share the knowledge
(about school to work transition)for those
who need it

8. Prototype 2
• A “forum like” website with different trends
for helping the people that needs a little help
for solving their different need about working
for the first time.

9. Test of prototype #2
• “forum sites” are so last century decade. Why
don’t you try a social network better.
• You can offer a premium membership that
allows you to get more noticed to the business
that are looking for people to hire.
• What would be a good name for the website?

10. Reflection
• Both ideas were recieved in a good way by the
interviewed people. Prototypes still need a lot
of work to be done into them, but they can be
fixed and converted into a tool that could help
someone in the future. One of the main things
to take into account is to improve the
developement of empathy for the user’s
situation.

11. Reflection
• If I continue working of the project, i will get a
bigger team to get more feedback from the
technical part of the developement. I also
would make a bigger prototype testing, to get
more feedback and improve the prototype
better.