08-26-2024 Meeting Notes - Welcome Back

Current plan

• Try to get new Trends update out in production by October

• Try to get new Marketing recruits

New trends update (what we did)

• Revamping the Search, to be more broad or more specific as needed.

  • Which leads to a new search results UI

• Added more filters/sorting to allow specificity.

• New Compare page, that can compare different professors/courses.
  

Designers

• Reformat the compare page - for Designers

• Compare page needs to be able to read up to 5 professors - figure a way to view all professors' data better.

• Also some small components should be cleaned up in Figma for engineers to implement

Product team

• Start talking to people about how the dashboard looks like and how they work.

  • Are users understanding data available and what the results indicate

• New user stories

• Prepare surveys

• Suggestion - Get surveys at all hands since we have a lot of people there.

• Different Axis on graphs and data, is it consistent?

Marketing

• Get more Marketing people and figure out a way to market nebula through campus both online and in person

• Event Ideas for the semester

  • Ice cream social(Already planned)

  • Halloween Social (Potentially Oct 28th-31st)

  • Christmas Social/ EOY social (Potentially Dec 2nd-6th)

  • Nebula Hack

  • Potluck TBD

Engineering

• Bugfixes

• Error Handling

• Finishing Touches

  • Default sorting - Which sort?

  • Caching? (Complex)

  • Recent Tags - You can see what you search in your last 5 searches.

Analytics

• Use the Analytics (Vercel or google) to see where most People click from, which features are being interacted with, lag time and user frustrations.

Engineering Workshop

• Teach and show new recruits how the code base works and how everything connects together

• Maybe give tasks for new members to document the code and APIs.

• Maybe make a google doc explaining how the code base works. (Write it over time, because time consuming).