A user-friendly, light-weight, and low-cost solution for collecting and analyzing space occupation and usage data in NYU Manhattan Campus.

Finished Application Demo

After 2 months of designing and developing, we launched NYU Space and implemented it to multiple sites in NYU manhattan campus such as the La Guardia Studio, Kimmel Center. It has receive many positive feedbacks for its clean design and simple UX. Below is a video demo of the application.

DEFINE THE PROBLEM

NYU has more than 300 indoor spaces that are available for students to use. However, we do not know the occupancy rate of these spaces, nor who uses them. 

With NYU Space Check-In, admins can easily collect check-in data, allowing them a better understanding of space-usage around NYU Campus and student needs. 

TEAM

UX & Visual Design: Effy Fan

UX Development: Mingfei Huang, Adeola Uthman

User Flows Diagrams

For Admins

For End Users

Hardware Suggestion

The current equipment NYU uses are a RFID swiper, which is costly and hard to use. With this RFID Tapper we suggest, each space and reduce $1500+ in cost and get a faster check-in every-time a user enters the space.

Landing Page Design

Main Check-in Page Design

Data Visualization Dashboard

This page allow admins of the spaces to approach the usage data very easily. The can see the most recent usage trend of the day, a comparison of average data and last week’s data, and see an analysis of the overall usage. The raw data is also available for the users to view and download with one click.

This was my first real-world professional UX project, and I’m proud that our small team successfully completed it within a short timeframe. Through this experience, I learned how to plan sprints more effectively, rapidly build minimum viable prototypes to communicate design intent, and collaborate and align with developers more persuasively.

After three months of implementation, NYU decided to adopt a vendor solution to replace all existing check-in applications across campus. As a result, we began exploring new use cases for NYU Space beyond its initial scope. This pivot taught me the importance of proactively identifying potential stakeholders and quickly establishing user groups to sustain product relevance.

The lessons I gained from designing and adapting NYU Space have strengthened my ability to develop strategic, user-centered design solutions and navigate evolving project requirements in future work.