09-10-2024 Meeting notes

Introductions

• Name, division and what you’re excited about with Trends

What is Trends

• Search grade and RateMyProfessor data

• Compare different searches

• https://trends.utdnebula.com/ vs. https://dev.trends.utdnebula.com/

  • The later is the redesign which will be out in a month

• Work to be done

  • engineering

    • decent amount of bug fixes

  • designers

    • tweaks for compare and cards

    • redesign filters and academic session select

• You can work on any division

• Questions

  • Default sorting: Issue up for grabs

  • Make ratings in Trends: Up for discussion post-redesign

  • Mobile friendly: usable

  • Can you see RMP reviews in Trends?: No

    • It needs a link to RMP but that’s not there right now and is scheduled for after the redesign

  • Tech stack: Nect.js, React, Typescript

  • Lauch data: Be ready by 07 Oct 2024

  • Why React?: industry standard

Discuss

• LHS Information overload

  • Color legend to indicate color scale

    • Could be in a tooltip

  • GPA is 0 to 4 and RMP is 0 to 5 which creates color inconsistency

    • Maybe having different colors for each column

    • Some kind of indication of this 0-4/0-5 scale

  • Red green is universal but the color contrast is not up to compliance

    • Red-green color blindness

  • Omit number to standardize sources

  • Remove colors

    • Too much color is distracting

    • Maybe just an option to turn colors off

  • Maybe you don’t want to be making a decision just on difficulty

  • Should Would take again be in the main table

  • Could reshuffle which columns are in the table

  • Letter grade instead of GPA

    • People understand A+ better than GPA

    • Map distribution to GPA then GPA to average letter grade

    • You lose info tho

    • Hover on letter to show the GPA(Toggle would be nice)

    • Letter on right and number on left

  • Problem Summary

    • Differences in scale, which end is good/bad, overloading from too many colors, make this decision difficult

  • Solutions Options Summary

    • Color toggle and tooltip to explain color scale

  • GPA Problems

    • Differences in 0.1 of GPA(How impactful is that)

    • Most People have B’s in classes

    • Is GPA that important?

    • Lots of numbers so some letters might be okay

    • Raw GPA might be better

    • If we use letters just get rid of the colors.

  • Rating

    • It should be included (everyone agrees).

  • Sizing

    • Make the LHS smaller

    • Might make it draggable

    • Switching the LHS and RHS sizes (looks better)

  • Styling

    • Maybe use some of the 2024 spring design mock-up, specifically speaking the stars.

  • Difficulty Talk

    • Take out difficulty and just keep everything else

    • Might just hide the difficulty

• RHS - (Will talk about next week)

  • RHS Compare row duplication

    • Might put Letter grades instead of GPA

  • Put a limit on how many you can compare

Design

• Two people find which colors work best for the letters and stars

• other 3 work on the redesign of expanding the RHS

  • Maybe two mockups

Engineer

• Experienced people

  • Look for the non good first issue

• New people

  • Look for the new issues and maybe ask for help from experienced engineers.

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