community initiative / live

Yay Campus

A student-transition platform connecting campus guidance, milestones, peer stories and support applications.

relationship: community initiative
sector: student transition & campus life
status: live
date: 2026

Yay Campus desktop homepage with illustrated backpack, Start strong Stay you headline and primary navigation — live captureStudent-transition proposition and six primary routes.

prototype usability targets

clear enough to move without help.

benchmarks for the next documented usability study. These targets should be replaced with observed results after testing is complete.

target for finding a primary route without assistance: 92%
target for rating the campus guide as helpful: 83%
target for understanding tracker progress on first use: 75%

01 / Frame

Name the invisible work around starting university.

The platform treats transition as more than registration and class schedules. Its guide names academics, money, housing, health, belonging, winter and Canada basics, then lets students read what they need now and leave the rest for later.

Process reconstruction showing a student transition journey, low-fidelity mobile wireframes and a six-route information architecture — process reconstructionProcess reconstruction based on the verified guide, tracker, stories, free-kit, shop and FAQ paths. Not an archival project artifact.

Yay Campus mobile homepage with Start strong Stay you headline, illustrated student kit and persistent navigation — supplied artifactSupplied Yay Campus mobile homepage.

02 / Architecture

Turn a broad support promise into six clear routes.

Guide, Tracker, Stories, Free kit, Shop and FAQ each answer a different student task. The homepage previews all six in the same order as the persistent navigation, reducing the distance between orientation and action.

service design digital product brand identity web design & development content design

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