Group Members

Wesam Manassra
Arun Saigal
Gordon Wintrob

Problem Statement

IvyPlusResumes lets students manage their range of educational, professional, and personal experiences and generate polished resumes.  Beyond the formatting of a quality resume, college undergraduates dislike the hassle of maintaining a set of different versions for specific companies.  Moreover, they are often uncertain about how to best describe and organize their experience during the job search.  IvyPlusResumes serves as a tool for students to build resumes and present themselves more effectively to future employers.

GR1: Analysis

GR2: Designs

GR2: Designs

Design 1: The Wizard Approach 

Having decided to use IvyPlusResumes, Isamu points his browser to the website, and decides to sign up. Very simply, the signup interface asks him to provide his email and a password.

After Isamu signs up, he will be directed to enter his basic information such as name, contact info, and address in order to be used in the future resume. Nothing out of the ordinary here, just filling the various fields and checking some options from a drop down menu.

Now Isamu arrives to the very first step of resume building. He is asked to provide information regarding his college and high school education. Using each add field, Isamu adds Brown University and his highschool, and can add more information for each one via the "Add More Info" button (which supposedly will bring a pop-up window with fields to add more data).

Afterwards, Isamu is asked to supply different experiences to his resume. He can use the a




Design 3

Isamu has decided to use IvyPlusResumes to help him get ready for the career fair tomorrow. He opens his computer and goes to the IvyPlusResume's home page. He sees some text about how IvyPlusResumes will get him ready for networking. He sees a place to login, and a place "Add Experience" field to insert an experience or to position to his resume, and then click the "Add More Information" for each experience to augmented with additional information such as the position, the dates of start and end, and the different tasks accomplished in each experience.
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Next, Isamu repeats the exact process for his leadership experiences and adds the different leadership positions to his resume.
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When Isamu arrives to this page, he would have finished entering the information of each category (Education, Experience, Leadership, etc). In this page, therefore, Isamu can change the order of categories and subcategories in the resume, and removes things that he does not want to show. The different panels has an offordance of dragging, and are easily removable giving a great form of flexibility in reordering and selection.
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Having done all of the previous steps in this wizard-like design, Isamu is ready to see the final outcome of his work and explore his finalized resume. He can, of course, go back and change things easily. Once the resume looks complete, Isamu can enable the option of sharing it with employers and creating an electronic form of it (such as PDF).
an account, so he decides to sign up.

He is taken to a sign in page, where he enters his email address and a password, which he will use to log in from now on

When he hits create, he is taken to his home page. He has the ability to view past resumes by clicking on their names. Although there are currently no resume names as he has not yet made and saved any resumes. There is also a resume viewer on the page, where he will see a resume when it is clicked on. Lastly, there is a "create new resume" button, which he clicks on to create his first resume.

He is now taken to a page which resembles a resume, except where there is usually text, there are textboxes with hints.

He fills in these textboxes and has a form that now looks like this:

After filling in all of the boxes, he clicks the "preview" button at the bottom and gets a professional looking resume as follows.

He notices the 4 buttons at the bottom and tries each of them. The "edit" button takes him back to the previous page which he can edit. The save button opens up a dialog box as follows.
He can type in a name and save his resumes. He can then view this resume from his home page under the "View past resumes" tab.

Next he tries the print button, which allows him to print his resume, by opening up his computer's print dialog box. He prints his resume and is ready to go.

Lastly, he clicks the fourth button, the "share" button. The share button allows him to open and share his resume with any email address he wants, by typing the email address he wants to share with in the dialog box and by clicking the share button.

He shares with his mom, because he is pleased with his resume, prints a few more copies, and heads off to sleep, confident now with his new career ready resume.

He then logs out from the top left corner, where he can always go to his home page or log out (if the current resume is saved).