To deliver a viable service by October we are aggressively reducing scope, limiting many features to their irreducible core. When we have built the minimum viable service, we can begin to improve on features to better meet user needs. This is being tracked using a Story map in Trello.
To visualise what that service might look like, this is a design which uses:
- only the existing UCAS course data on course detail pages – eg there’s been no enrichment and there is no bespoke text
- the list of subjects as provided by UCAS
- only the locations that exist in the data for location search
All private beta specifics (eg anything pertaining to business studies only) have been removed.
User research
We tested this design with remote users on 25 to 26 July 2018:
Aiming to test:
- the minimum viable service, looking for any major difficulties in the journey to prioritise focus
- reactions to minimum course details page
- results listings including distance to nearest place you can apply to attribute
- current filters and what is a priority in terms of building
We iterated this design during research.