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Each course has its own job groups. For example, under course 6, we have Hardware, Software, Electrical Engineering, Consulting and Investment Banking. There are some job groups, namely Consulting and Investment Banking, are common through all majors. On selecting a job group, it is displayed with an “X”, in case the user wishes to to delete the filter. An example of filtering is showed in Figure 3 with the filters on the left of the page, along with the resultant job posts.
Figure 3: Filtering job posts
Users can follow a post in the follow tab by clicking the "Follow" button next to the post. Initially, when a user clicked on "Follow", our interface initially only had the text on the follow button changing to “Unfollow”. Our TA, Vijay, in his evaluation of our computer prototype brought to our attention that this feedback does not pass the squint test. As a result, we decided to also change the color of the button to red to ensure the feedback is clearly visible. Figure 4 illustrates this feedback
Figure 4: Following job posts
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In the "My Posts" tab, the user can see the posts he/she follows, and also the posts he/she has created. He can unfollow posts, and also message creators of the posts he is following. This tab is illustrated in Figure 6.
Figure 6: My Posts tab
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Users can delete the posts that they have created by clicking the "X" button next to the post. If the user deletes a post, a message appears at the top stating that a post was deleted and the user can undo the deleted post (Figure 8). This function was introduced after our paper prototype to facilitate error handling.
Figure 8: Deleting post
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The currently open view (Inbox/Sent/Updates) is highlighted in light blue for navigational visibility.
Figure 9: Messages tab
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The user, then, fills all the information necessary to send a message and he/she can send the message. Also, a user can discard a message, if he/she decides not to write a message. We enabled this after the paper prototype to increase user control and freedom. If the user discards a message he/she is redirected to the “Inbox” folder in order to be consistent with applications such as Gmail.
Figure 11: Composing Messages
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