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3 Designers

4 Devs

1 Product

Tools

Figma

Linear

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Skills

Leadership

Brand Design

Prototyping

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Introduction

Problem

Solution

Research

Prototyping

Usability Testing

Coming Soon

Introduction

Students at the University of Texas attend classes across dozens of buildings spread throughout the university’s 440-acre campus.

Frequent construction around campus closes paths, hindering access to sidewalks, ramps, roadways, etc. While the university provides e-mail notice of these closures, inconsistencies regarding timeline or location of closures often obstructs campus mobility.

Problem

Students with mobility disabilities experience several unexpected barriers, such as construction blockages, when navigating around campus.

Currently, there are no real-time navigation tools for UT students that provide accurate, up-to-date information to help them plan routes around unexpected changes to their route.

Solution

Through Mobilize UT (MUT), we provide a mobile app with real-time routing and navigation support driven by campus-specific landmark details and community insights.

Mobilize UT displays accessibility maps, up-to-date building entrance information, and elevator statuses. The app also has a “report blockage” feature for students to report temporary blockages, allowing students to support one another when planning navigation routes.

Introduction

Students at the University of Texas attend classes across dozens of buildings spread throughout the university’s 440-acre campus.

Frequent construction around campus closes paths, hindering access to sidewalks, ramps, roadways, etc. While the university provides e-mail notice of these closures, inconsistencies regarding timeline or location of closures often obstructs campus mobility.

Problem

Students with mobility disabilities experience several unexpected barriers, such as construction blockages, when navigating around campus.

Currently, there are no real-time navigation tools for UT students that provide accurate, up-to-date information to help them plan routes around unexpected changes to their route.

Solution

Through Mobilize UT (MUT), we provide a mobile app with real-time routing and navigation support driven by campus-specific landmark details and community insights.

Mobilize UT displays accessibility maps, up-to-date building entrance information, and elevator statuses. The app also has a “report blockage” feature for students to report temporary blockages, allowing students to support one another when planning navigation routes.

Solution

Through Mobilize UT (MUT), we provide a mobile app with real-time routing and navigation support driven by campus-specific landmark details and community insights.

Mobilize UT displays accessibility maps, up-to-date building entrance information, and elevator statuses. The app also has a “report blockage” feature for students to report temporary blockages, allowing students to support one another when planning navigation routes.

Research

We conducted a competitive analysis with five applications that provided routing or accessibility services.

We also interviewed seven students with mobility disabilities to understand some of their current experiences navigating campus and utilizing existing accessibility resources. We interviewed two staff members working at UT’s Disability and Access office to learn more about the structure of accessibility projects’ funding and implementation on campus.

After conducting user interviews and analyzing features of the five applications that worked well or could have been improved, we finalized the features we wanted to include in our MVP.

Prototyping

We brainstormed several flows for how routing might look in the app.

Then, using the Longhorn Developers’ design system, we created several components and started building out several iterations of screens.

Usability Testing

Now that we have finished our initial high-fidelity prototypes, we are currently in the process of usability testing to receive feedback on four feature flows in our prototype:


  1. Onboarding

2a. Routing

2b. Changing destination while routing

  1. Reporting a Blockage

We plan on testing with at least ten participants by end of March 2026.

Coming Soon

Once we have completed usability testing and iterated our screens based on feedback received, this project page will be updated with the Mobilize UT app launch details and key performance indicators.

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