📚 ZotLabs

🏆 Winner of Best User Experience Award at FusionCon

ZotLabs is a platform designed to connect undergraduate students with faculty-led research opportunities at UC Irvine. Built with a strong emphasis on accessibility and community, ubeBytes (the student team behind ZotLabs) enables seamless discovery, application, and management of research listings for students and researchers alike.

🖥️ Live Prototype

• Figma: Final UI Design
• Canva: Branding & Visuals

🚀 Features

👩‍🎓 Student Experience

• Explore listings via /dashboard/student
• Apply to listings through apply.jsx
• View applications and saved listings in ProfilePage.jsx and in the navbar drop-down

👨‍🔬 Researcher Experience

• Post listings through CreateListing.jsx
• Review applicants via /dashboard/researcher
• View listings and saved applications in ProfilePage.jsx and in the navbar drop-down

🔐 Authentication & Routing

• Supabase handles login and session state via AuthPage.jsx
• Conditional rendering based on user role (student or researcher)

💡 UI Components

• DashboardCard.jsx: Displays research posts
• ProfilePage.jsx: Centralized user profile management

🧪 Getting Started

✅ Prerequisites

• Node.js
• A Supabase project
• A .env file in the client/ directory with:

VITE_SUPABASE_URL=your_url
VITE_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY=your_key

🛠 Installation

git clone https://github.com/aariela/ubeBytes
cd ubeBytes
npm install
npm run dev

The app will be running locally at: http://localhost:5173

🧠 Credits

Developer Lead: Aariel Abaincia

Developer Support: Daniel Ian Reyes

Developers:

• Brandon Le
• Josh Talla
• Elgin Vuong
• Emily Tang
• Matthew Dang
• Theo Markopoulos
• Vivienne Anne Catarroja

Designer Lead: Veela Agas

Designer Support: Vivienne Anne Catarroja

Designers:

• Colin Kendall
• Spencer Tuazon

Special thanks to FUSION ICS Project Directors Benson Manzano and Jerome Manarang for guidance and support throughout the course of the project.

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the full license text in the LICENSE file.