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Study Buddies

Study Buddies is a mobile app that helps Binghamton students easily connect with classmates, faculty, and tutors through one centralized platform.

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Timeline

Sept 2025 - May 2026

Service

App Development

Team

2 UX Team Leads, 3 UX Designers

Tools

Figma, Fig Jam, Google Workspace

Students at Binghamton struggled to meet and connect with peers beyond their existing circles. Large lecture halls and already-formed social cliques made it hard to find classmates, tutors, or faculty within their own major or course sections. Existing options like GroupMe had low engagement and weren't built for this kind of discovery.


Students at Binghamton struggled to meet and connect with peers beyond their existing circles. Large lecture halls and already-formed social cliques made it hard to find classmates, tutors, or faculty within their own major or course sections. Existing options like GroupMe had low engagement and weren't built for this kind of discovery.


Students at Binghamton struggled to meet and connect with peers beyond their existing circles. Large lecture halls and already-formed social cliques made it hard to find classmates, tutors, or faculty within their own major or course sections. Existing options like GroupMe had low engagement and weren't built for this kind of discovery.


The Problem

The Problem

User interviews and surveys confirmed that students struggled most to find people specifically within their own major, so the team prioritized that as the core discovery mechanism rather than general social matching. To reduce friction in getting students to actually use it, I focused on minimizing the number of clicks required to find and connect with a classmate, and grounded interaction patterns in what's currently working in networking apps rather than reinventing conventions students would need to relearn.

User interviews and surveys confirmed that students struggled most to find people specifically within their own major, so the team prioritized that as the core discovery mechanism rather than general social matching. To reduce friction in getting students to actually use it, I focused on minimizing the number of clicks required to find and connect with a classmate, and grounded interaction patterns in what's currently working in networking apps rather than reinventing conventions students would need to relearn.

User interviews and surveys confirmed that students struggled most to find people specifically within their own major, so the team prioritized that as the core discovery mechanism rather than general social matching. To reduce friction in getting students to actually use it, I focused on minimizing the number of clicks required to find and connect with a classmate, and grounded interaction patterns in what's currently working in networking apps rather than reinventing conventions students would need to relearn.

Key Decisions

Key Decisions

Empathize —> Research —> Ideate —> Prototype —-> Develop —> User Test

Empathize —> Research —> Ideate —> Prototype —-> Develop —> User Test

Empathize —> Research —> Ideate —> Prototype —-> Develop —> User Test

Process

Process

As Co-UX Team Lead, I inherited the project partway through after it had stalled under unclear direction, and rebuilt the design approach from the ground up. I led a team of 3 UX designers, personally owning the most complex and time-intensive flows while delegating and reviewing the rest of the team's work to keep the product cohesive, and worked directly with the engineering team to keep design decisions grounded in what was technically feasible to ship.

As Co-UX Team Lead, I inherited the project partway through after it had stalled under unclear direction, and rebuilt the design approach from the ground up. I led a team of 3 UX designers, personally owning the most complex and time-intensive flows while delegating and reviewing the rest of the team's work to keep the product cohesive, and worked directly with the engineering team to keep design decisions grounded in what was technically feasible to ship.

My Impact

My Impact

all three of these

all three of these

all three of these

[ Landing Page ] Crazy 8's Exercise —> Lo-Fi Wireframe —-> Mid-Fi Wireframe —> Hi-Fi Wireframe

[ Landing Page ] Crazy 8's Exercise —> Lo-Fi Wireframe —-> Mid-Fi Wireframe —> Hi-Fi Wireframe

Branding

Branding

Branding

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