UI/UX DESIGN
FALL 2025, 4 WEEKS
FIGMA, SWIFTUI
about.
Improvost completely reimagines what a modern, polished, and student-centered app for a university campus could be. The current app for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is functional, but does not properly embody the excellence and technological advancement the university represents. This project aims to bring responsive user experiences, long-awaited features requested by students, and updates to features that students use most.
there are problems. many.
As a first-semester freshman at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, I began to use the school's in-house mobile app for resources such as dining hall menus, campus maps, and student-based communities.
The Illinois app is plagued by:
nonsensical app organization
high interaction costs
drastic inconsistencies
poor visual design
Even in the latest version 7.3.33, the mealtime selection interface is scrambled. The menu is designed to default to the current or next mealtime based on the time of day.
However, the menu is designed to show default menus through a first/second/third sequence. Consequently, the menu shows the Dinner menu at lunchtime, and the Lunch menu at dinnertime.