We have identified 4 types of users that would be interested in using our product
Persona: Thomas is a sophmore in 6.006, he's been working on his pset all day and is stuck on the last problem, unable to make his code meet the speed requirement. He doesn't know anyone else in the class and Piazza isn't helping. He knows there must be some other students around still working on the pset but he doesnt know how to contact them. Tom wants a way to connect to other students stuck like himself and finish his pset.
Persona: Dexter is a junior in 6.003, after spending four hours working on problem number three, he finally has a moment of clarity. Using his new found inspiration he's able to finish the problem. Upset at the Professor for making such a confusing problem, he wants to find a way to help others working on this pset so they don't waste as much time as he did.
Persona: Ash is a 6-3 senior and just decided that he wants to do 6.470, a web programming competition, but he needs to find a group. All of his friends are either gone for IAP or not interested in coding or web design. Ash really feels like he has a great idea for the competition, but with no great way to find a group he won't really be able to compete since he feels like the project is too difficult for one person to be able to accomplish over IAP.
Persona: Jack & Jill are in one of the reading room cubicles in the student center struggling with a 6.046 pset. This is the 2nd pset that they have worked on together and though they were able to struggle through the first and eek out a decent grade, they know that a third or fourth person in their group would not only make tooling slightly easier and more enjoyable, but it would also probably improve their grade.
Tasks users can perform are as follows
Goal: Create profile to interact with the Web App
Goal: Make a post relaying the your wants and needs
Goal: Quickly find postings of interest
Goal: Make sure the App is not breaching academic integrity policies