Presented by Andrew Tse, Kenny Wu,
Mehershad Dahmubed, Ssu-Chia
Margaret Lin, and Stephen Liu
Tasks
• The Uber-Scheduler is a system
to assist students in planning and
viewing their term schedule.
– We limited the scope of our
project to the U.C. Berkeley.
• A student can easily find and
manipulate classes he is
interested in taking for the term.
• A student can view a geographic
overview of where his classes are
located.
• A student can print and exchange
his schedule with important
relevant information.
Users
• Expected User Population
– UC Berkeley Students of all levels/majors
– Has some sort of method to create a schedule (e.g.
by hand, Excel , AmanB, FinalDistance)
– All levels of technical ability
• Sample User Persona
– Name: Chris Trousdale
– Info: 2nd Year UCB Student, Undecided Major
• Range of interests means the application must be
flexible, providing both specific and general
information.
– Skill: Novice computer user (MS Word, IE, Firefox,
AOL IM)
• Large portion of novice uses means the design must
be clean and simple with easy access to “Help.”
Example Interaction
Planning and Printing a Schedule
• Chris is creating his Spring ‘06 schedule and needs to
pick classes to fill his schedule.
– “TeleBears is coming soon. I need to decide on my classes!”
• Chris registers for a free and new Uber-Scheduler
account by clicking on register (1), entering his
information (2), and submitting (3).
– “Hmmm…I don’t have an account yet. I should register one!”
Example Interaction
Planning and Printing a Schedule
• Chris knows he wants to take Theater 40A, IEOR 160,
Philosophy 122, Philosophy 132.
– Chris sees the “Add Class” box and goes to add Theater 40A to
his schedule. He selects Theater in the “Dept” dropdown and
40A in the “Class” dropdown (1).
– He repeats the process with the remaining classes.
• “Oh wow! My classes appear graphically and in a list!” (2)
Example Interaction
Planning and Printing a Schedule
• Chris needs to remove an IEOR 160 Discussion
– “Hmmm…I only need to take one discussion for IEOR 160. I
prefer early morning classes so I’ll keep the one on Friday and
remove the one on Wednesday. But I don’t know how to do it!?”
– Chris doesn’t know how to remove a class so he consults Help
(1) and discovers (2) he has to click on the class he wants to
remove. He returns to edit his schedule with that button (3).
– Chris clicks on the Wednesday discussion and an info box
opens. He clicks the “Remove this Class” link to remove.
Example Interaction
Planning and Printing a Schedule
• Chris has now finalized his schedule and wants
to print it for reference.
– “Yay! My semester schedule is finalized for now. I
wish I have a way to print it! Oh wow a print view!”
– Chris clicks the print button on the “Print View” page