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CASE STUDY - Making university students’ daily lives easier

July 16, 2025

With over 14,000 students, ISCTE - one of the largest public universities in Portugal - was looking for a solution to simplify academic life on campus and strengthen communication between the university and its students. Although the Fénix platform was already the central hub for academic information, there was a clear need for a complementary app focused on students’ day-to-day needs.

Xperienz led the entire UX Research and Design process, conducting exploratory interviews, diary studies, and usability tests with the academic community. This collaborative approach helped identify the main challenges students were facing - from campus disorientation to fragmented access to information - and translate them into concrete, useful features.

The result was an intuitive mobile app, offering functionalities such as room change alerts, ticket queue control for Academic Services and Treasury, daily menus, centralised academic calendar, and campus map with current location to make way finding easier (powered by iBeacons). A practical, relevant tool that has already been embraced by the ISCTE community and shows how user-centered design can make a real impact.

Get to know more about our research and design process, and take a sneak peek at the final result 👉 Full case study [PDF] 

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