Black Box — Rethought, Redesigned and Revamped!
Tags: Study Abroad, UX Design, Updates, UX, Product Design

We can’t stop! We just can’t!

We are in the middle of an improvement streak that has made our dev and design team relentless in releasing an update every week!

In this edition of the Yocket Black box, we are bringing you augmented features and UX improvements that make you think, ‘Did I do that with just a click?’.

Let’s get on with it!

Messages Maximus!

Here come the Messages features with many add-on functionalities that are intuitive and intriguing.

Separate important conversations from the rest for ease of access with Pin Conversation.

Don’t worry about typos and wrong messages sent. Just hit Delete and move on.

Found someone having similar aspirations on group chats? Visit their profile by clicking on their name. An efficient shortcut!

From Referral to Rewards!

It's a fact that we are known for our phenomenal Premium services and how we take care of our premium users. Now, our Premium users can invite their aspiring family and friends into the fold and earn rewards. This feature is available on the website and will arrive soon to the app.

If you are a premium user, share your referral code with your friends and family

You and the person you refer will gain exciting rewards! And boy! those are some exciting rewards we have in store for you.

Start referring already!

Gateways to Connect!

We were brainstorming on how to seamlessly connect you with other Yocketers and ting!💡

We’ve introduced a few gateways to Connect from University pages and course pages. You can view Yocketers who have shortlisted and applied to universities and visit their profiles instantly.

Shortlist to know the deadlines!

Finding application deadlines of universities have been made easier.

Step 1: Shortlist your preferred university course in your application manager.

Step 2: There is no step 2!

You will see the deadlines displayed on your shortlisted university and just like that we’ve made your life easier!

Full Profile. Full Benefits!

We are constantly finding ways to make the study abroad process hassle-free for you. In this case, complete your profile and get to enjoy all the benefits of Yocket. One of them is, we auto-fill your details whenever needed and give you a personalized experience through the platform.

Auto-filled details on College Finder.

on College Finder. Automated listing based on your preference on Explore, Connect, University Deadlines and more.

on Explore, Connect, University Deadlines and more. We’ve also strategically placed “casual” reminders for you to fill out your profile on your Feed. By completing your profile, you’ll unlock the many perks we’ve in store for you.

A faster, sleeker Connect

Experience the intuitive designs of Connect exclusively on the mobile app. With Quick filters, interactive profile cards, minimal designs, Yocket Connect has a new feature added that displays the application status of each aspirant for easy sorting.

University Deadlines

Find out all the deadlines of your preferred universities with interactive filters and personalized listing based on your profile. This feature is currently active only on the web and PWA versions.

Our “Not so important but IMPORTANT” updates

Automation of task addition to My Tasks: Based on the study abroad stage, our premium users will get tasks added to their ‘My Tasks” section automatically. (Available only for Premium accounts)

Based on the study abroad stage, our premium users will get tasks added to their ‘My Tasks” section automatically. (Available only for Premium accounts) The Who? What? Where? of documents: Now you can know who uploaded the documents, their review stage along with their type. (Available only for Premium accounts)

Now you can know who uploaded the documents, their review stage along with their type. (Available only for Premium accounts) All your requests to change their degree level preference has been undertaken and will be reflected in the coming updates.

That brings us to our sign off

“We’ve made other miscellaneous UX improvements and fixed several bugs.”

We are passionate to bring you a product that serves you in the best way possible. With every update, we are finding excuses to improve features aesthetically and functionally. We’ll be back soon with our next Black box update soon.

Until then, experience a smoother study abroad journey.