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This design emulates the social-networking website Facebook. Primarily, the focus is on a menu bar that populates the left side with different aspects of the college search. Ideally this , menu system is configurable. The main window composing of the rest of the horizontal region is devoted to content that is generated specifically for the user that can span from specific colleges, events, or even other known itineraries for similar trips that the user is searching for. The central theme of this design revolves around the community aspect of college planning. The information available to the user is similar to the other designs and provides a clean and simple interface to manipulate and extract vital times or locations from each college. Similar to the previous designs, there is a search option to specifically find colleges. Planning itineraries will be in the main content area.

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This interface is inspired by the new Windows 8 operating system. The primary goal of this design is aesthetic: clean, simple, well defined sections that pertain to the various aspects of college trip planning. There is a central navigation bar, with various other rectangles that are brightly colored that have different content. The primary boxes will focus on a featured college, a calendar featuring different events from either suggested or previously researched colleges. A configurable system based on user preferences can feature college statistics or an FAQ section; various applications can be implemented here and added. A log in system will allow a user to search for colleges and customize what they are interested in. The goal here would be to maintain a very simple, aesthetically-pleasing appearance, that's easily navigate and predictable.

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This interface would simply be composed of a landing page that had the majority of the screen devoted to a featured college. The main panel would be an image with a short discussion, that would periodically change to another suggested college. The idea is to remain as simple and minimalist as possible, with the options on the right of the main panel allowing for navigation. This main page would be the focus of the design, and choosing colleges would be similar to an art-viewing website that scrolled through search results or suggested options.

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This design was primarily focused on the "find the right school" task, and provided a series of ways to select criteria for the desired type of college and then would generate the list of similar schools. The screen would be divided into 3 panels, the first (top left) would be a list of criteria (similar to yelp or other check box interfaces) where you can select all of the qualities you're looking for, pick a geographic area, and a radius within that area and then generate a list of schools. This section would be for people who had no idea about a school to generate similar schools to. The top right panel would generate a list of schools similar to a base school i.e. tell the system to "find schools like..." and have a school in mind (in our scenario this is like knowing Northeastern is a school you want to visit, but not knowing other schools in Boston). This finding technique would be primarily based on average GPA and SAT scores, and then could be filtered by other criteria later. Finally in the bottom right, if you already have a series of schools selected that you want to visit you can just simply "Start Planning a Trip," and start inputting the schools you would like to visit and then the tool would generate the itineraries based on the tour/info session times of those schools.

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