3-19-2024 General Meeting notes

Search Bar

• Reviewed what was discussed on 03-09-2024’s meeting

  • Thinking of a result page with a 1/3-2/3 split of the sidebar and results (like in the current Figma design)

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Engineering Tasks

• Tyler and co: Nearly done

  • Waiting for course eval data

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Re: Course Evaluation Data

• API team has a roadblock

  • Could not do what they did with grade data (ask Josh)

  • So planned on doing an on-demand API

    • But CourseBook is using CAPTCHA’s and other ways to stop scraping

  • We will probably use RMP and distribution data via the API

Data Documentation

• This Document shows all the data that we have access to, with the formats they are accessible in.

Comparison Page & Search Results Page

• Questions about whether a separate comparison page is even needed

  • @Boden Chen thinks it is not user-friendly to have to constantly go back when you want to add a different comparison

    • Suggestion: Modal (pop-up) for Compare Page

• Suggestion:

  • Left side of page is Search Results which should be sort-able and should be a list (see Figma)

    • Shows GPA, Rating, Difficulty as numbers

    • Other data (eval) can be tags (good/bad tags)

      • These pop up if some data is extreme (5/5 communication → “Good Communication” tag; 1/5 Homework → “Hard Homework” tag)

    • Or an expanding (accordion) cord

  • Right side is the graph which can show (on-selection) multiple courses' distributions

  • Suggestion: (like BestBuy) can select cards to compare and they will be stored (pinned, compare tray)

    • + modal when actually comparing

  • Need to Consider: Mobile UI