Buzzword is an app that helps non-native english speakers learn industry jargon and colloquialisms. The goal of this project was to solve a life problem using an app. We chose to focus on the issues of non-native english speakers who had moved to t
For our user research we interviewed five people who moved to the US knowing some english, and asked them about their experiences learning to speak a new language while working. we also conducted a google survey that got 18 responses from people of
After our interviews we collated our data and found that the issue of learning english words that are not included in most languages courses was a common theme in our research. We decided to focus on this issue.
With our focus of teaching uncommon english phrases and different work related terms we started to brainstorm ideas for how we could do that in an app. One of our main goals for our app was to make it very accessible to working and busy individuals,
We started our prototyping phase by making four separate paper prototypes and then comparing the features and layouts of each and combining them into one midfi prototype on figma. Our original design had a separate page and menus for our four featur
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