Newbie Project for Penn Labs - Leading UI/UX design of Penn Mobile Portal, a web application to manage marketing campaigns / polls shown to 8k+ users of Penn Mobile.
Name: Penn Mobile Portal
Role: Product Designer
Team members: Hassan Hammoud (Business Dev), Jasmine Cao (Frontend), Justin Zhang (Backend), Matthew Rosca-Hamlamgean (Full Stack), Michelle Pang (Frontend)
Timeline: September 2020 - Present
Tools: Figma
The Penn Mobile Portal was originally a side project spun out of the Penn Mobile iOS project by former Labs Director Josh Doman. He noted that Penn Mobile users wanted an interactive homepage that could tell them about relevant events on campus.
For Spring Fling 2018, the Penn Mobile app included a map and description of the concerts happening during the events, and students loved it. This was the basis from which Portal was born.
The Portal has been used for advertising alumni talks, outdoors programs, and our own recruiting process. In the future, the Portal will be expanded to become the primary method by which Penn students/admin can interact with our products.
Users must create a post or poll on the behalf of an organization, which means that we only allow certain people to submit posts — for example, a club president can be a Portal user, whereas a general body member would not be approved to make posts for that club. These roles are verified through Penn Clubs and Hub@Penn.
Posts or polls are then reviewed by Portal admins, who may approve, reject, or submit revision feedback. Users should be able to keep track of their submissions along the stages of approval.