The Lazaridis School of Business & Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University’s Start-Up Lab was contracted by the professors of BU354, Human Resources Management, to build a dashboard for their weekly assignments. This document summarizes the design decisions made for this project.

The design process was led by Derek Song, a co-op student working under under the Laurier Start-Up Lab. After getting the opinions of more than 59 students, the resulting platform features a collapsible sidebar aligned with Laurier’s visual identity and an interface inspired by MyLearningSpace, Google Docs, and Laurier Navigator. The home dashboard prioritizes upcoming deadlines, and Dashboard A (tested against 7 other medium-fidelity prototypes) will be further refined based on strong student preference.

Graphs can be found in the /pdfs folder, raw data is found in the .csv folders at root, and Python functions to assist with statistical hypothesis testing and graph generation is done through Python in the main.py file.

Deliverables

The final report is stored in the /BU354 Comparative Usability Report with High-Fidelity Prototypes and Formulas.pdf on root, with the formula sheet located at /formuale.pdf on root. Additionally, there are two Figma prototype links:

• High-fidelity prototype: view it here
• Medium-fidelity prototype: view it here