Reflection 7: Todo, Doing, Done

Reflection 7: Todo, Doing, Done

This semester, we didn’t just “build a student tool.” We shipped Mathiné—and learned the hard truth that adoption isn’t about features alone; it’s about access. If a product lives outside a student’s normal workflow, even great work gets ignored – not because it...
Reflection 6: The Final Bow

Reflection 6: The Final Bow

This sprint made one thing clear: adoption depends on access. Even with strong features, students won’t consistently use Mathiné if it sits outside their normal workflow. Based on student feedback, we shifted toward a Brightspace course shell to meet students where...
Reflection 5: We See the Light

Reflection 5: We See the Light

In this playback, we finally started to see Mathiné look like the tool we imagined back in September. Our to-do list went from a wall of “someday” items to a series of checked boxes: the refreshed landing page, shared calendars, assignment auto-population from...
Reflection 4: Locked In

Reflection 4: Locked In

This sprint, we shifted from “building features” to “building habits” – for our users and for ourselves. With exams looming, we leaned into study-season realities: clearer flows and community touchpoints that make Mathiné feel like a teammate, not another tab....
Reflection 3: Over the Bridge, Together!

Reflection 3: Over the Bridge, Together!

Over the past sprint, we tightened our engineering habits, deepened our campus partnerships, and turned hackathon sparks into production-ready features – while threading the needle on privacy and deployment inside UVic’s ecosystem. Same crew, same energy, just a...