A mobile-first student app consolidating Brightspace, scheduling, and campus services into one clean experience.
SaskPolytech students navigate multiple disconnected platforms daily — Brightspace for courses, a separate app for scheduling, and various portals for campus services. This fragmentation creates friction and cognitive overhead, especially for new students.
mySaskPolytech is a unified mobile app built in React Native with Expo Router, bringing all essential student tools under one roof with Material Design 3 principles and a clean drawer navigation system.
Students waste time context-switching between 4+ platforms to get through a single school day.
Key pain points identified:
User research focused on understanding how students currently interact with SaskPolytech's digital tools — what they reach for first, where they get stuck, and what they wish existed.
With research insights in hand, I moved into Figma to wireframe the core flows — home dashboard, course list, schedule view, and settings. Material Design 3 components were adapted to match SaskPolytech's brand while keeping the interface approachable for all students.
App walkthrough — demo video
Expo Router with a Material Design 3 drawer navigation provides persistent access to all major sections without losing context. The drawer pattern was chosen over tab bars to accommodate the growing number of features without cluttering the interface.
Generated lo-fi wireframes in Figma Make to rapidly explore layout options before committing to high-fidelity screens. This allowed quick iteration without visual noise getting in the way of structural decisions.
The app was submitted to the SaskPolytech Student Innovation Award and selected for presentation at convocation. Explore the interactive Figma prototype or open the live Expo Snack build on your own device.