Design 1

This is a search by tags (either user inputted or pre-programmed) that professors can add as preferences or requirements. This takes into account some of the tradeoffs that professors are willing to make as well as the characteristics that they must have for their projects. It's a "Save" button instead of a submit because it's supposed to be editable at any time instead of submitting it once and having it set.

This is the results page of each project search. This will change depending on the different preferences and requirements a professor puts in.  It actually ranks students to show them in order of matches (giving priority to satisfying requirements over satisfying preferences).

Design 2

This design is no longer a multistep process, but instead presents all the information for the user at once. This may save the use time because they don't have to switch back and forth between preferences and requirements like above, but instead things are categorized by classes and skills.

This is the results of the type of students that are the professor can view and contact. There are indicators of the three types of students: self-initiated, recommended, and matched. Self-initiated means that the student emailed the project because they're interested. Recommended means another professor or TA or user recommended the student for this project. Matched means the program matched the classes and skills that the professor wanted and picked a few high level matches.

Design 3

These designs are aimed for illiterate professors in the sense that they might have challenges with the traditional approaches. This may mean that the professor has challeneges with higher level English or just prefers a visual representation.

This is a form that simplifies the process of writing a project description so it standardizes the kind of information a professor needs to provide about the position. 

This is a comparison option for professors who have problems processing too many students at once and so offers a side-by-side comparison of the students. The professors can just select one which they think is better and the algorithm will run through until it's exhausted all the choices.

This is a visual representation of the characteristics a professor might be looking for and how they relate to each other to show how their requirements might be overlapping.

This is a visual representation of the results of students that match the position requirements and so the students toward the center are more fitting. Clicking on a student will still show more information than just the venn diagram.