1. Studymates
A Web App that finds a partner for you based on your working
preferences.
Runyu Ding, Sai Canchi, Yeonsoo Kwon
Studymates@umich.edu
2. Elevator Pitch
● For: students who want to find a partner for a class
● Who are dissatisfied with: sifting 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
with similar working preferences
● Unlike: Piazza
● Our product: Our match making app makes partners for students
on their behalf based off of their working preferences
3. User Testing Summary
Features Importance(1-5) Satisfaction(1-5)
Matching with Location 4.25 3.625
Matching with availability
for the current day
4.375 3.75
Matching with availability
for the week
4.25 3
Sending email with
matched partner
4.625 3.1429
Overall rating 4.375 3.3795
4. User Quotes
❖ “It seems that the website had all of the important features to me, but
I was not satisfied with the lack of information provided in the email.”
❖ “Users might be available for morning and evening on a certain day,
so probably it would be better for users to choose multiple time period
for a day”
❖ “Gets the job done, I would just try to make the UI look "cooler"”
5. Shortcomings & Solutions
Shortcoming Solution
Matched Partners don’t know why they
matched
The email matched partners receive
will identify their similar working
preferences
People are available multiple times
throughout the day
Give users the option to choose
multiple time periods for a day
After entering their information, Users
don’t know what to expect next
Notify the user they will receive an
email when matched
UI was a bit bland and could be improved
upon
Make the dropdown boxes less
cumbersome and more user friendly
