berkeleytime
Product designer for Berkeleytime*︎︎︎, UC Berkeley’s largest student-run academic course planning platform
(Sept 2023 - Jan 2024).
Team: Michelle Tran (design team lead), Rachel Hua, Mary Tran, Ethan Chng (+ me!)
Timeline: 7 weeks
Tools: Figma
Skills: product, web, and UX/UI design
Problem: inconsistencies on the website + no design system in place, making it problematic when trying to design new pages and features
-> What I worked on: solidifying our design system + adding in quality of life updates (+ learning lots along the way!)
replicating pages on our current website on our sources of truth file — matching components, finding all the different interaction variations, and sleuthing out inconsistencies
recreating the global nav bar with updated link interaction variables in our design system using component architecture
solidifying dropdowns and their interaction variations in our design system using components and variants (learning how many different parts go into a simple dropdown :0)
about page redesign –– playground + iterations w/ rachel! finding ways to collapse the team and alumni into a more concise + adding in "who we are" and "what we do" sections to highlight the team aspect in addition to the outward-facing platform work since most students don't know that berkeleytime is made by people like them!
about page redesign –– final iterations w/ rachel! going with a pages layout to display the team and alumni by either all or specific teams/graduating year