During a 5-week sprint at Cal Poly, I redesigned the Graduate Status Report website to transform an overwhelming, static resource into an interactive and intuitive tool for students exploring alumni career outcomes.

The Challenge

The existing Graduate Status Report website was static, overwhelming, and offered limited ways for students to explore alumni outcomes. Without interactive features, clear visualization, or the ability to filter by college and major, students struggled to find relevant insights, making career research frustrating and incomplete. This lack of usability risked underutilization of a valuable resource and missed opportunities for students to connect their education with real-world outcomes.

^ Information overload, overwhelming, difficult to navigate

To address this, I helped redesign the resource into a website format with better navigation, interactive filtering, and clear data visualization to help students easily explore alumni career paths and make informed decisions.

How might we make career exploration and future planning easier for students through clearer, more interactive alumni insights?

Design Principles

Effective Data Visualization

Turn overwhelming alumni statistics into intuitive visual formats that make trends and outcomes easy to grasp.

Focused Exploration

Allow students to filter by college, major, and career paths to surface the insights most relevant to their own journey.

Interactive Usability

Replace static content with dynamic tools that encourage exploration and make data more engaging to navigate.

My Approach

I worked with my team to develop research questions, distribute surveys, and conduct student interviews to understand what alumni information mattered most. We also had students test the existing GSR, gathering their frustrations and feedback to uncover opportunities for a more useful and engaging redesign. From there, we began with brainstorming on FigJam and getting an actual output rolling.