Bubble
Activity Dating App
Nowadays, more and more young people want to make new friends and build relationships besides their own community. Though by far there are plenty of approaches, the experience is far from smooth. Therefore, we want to learn more about the situation and what young people think in-depth.
Collaborate with
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Nick Chou / Front-End (Android)
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Allen Lai / Front-End (iOS)
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Vic Wang / Back-End
My responsibilities
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UI/UX design
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Style guide definition
User Study
To better understand the current situation, we conducted user interviews of people (aging from 24 to 35) about how they make new friends, how they feel and what experiences they met before.
Affinity Diagram
We then gathered what we learned from the user study and sorted them into affinity diagram. This helped us to notice and focus on some specific topics further.
Insights
From the interview, we discovered that having mutual friends when making new friends greatly enhance people’s trust, since the relationship would be closer. Moreover, group activities can make people feel less nervous than one on one activities.
Another phenomenon was that some people are afraid that inviting a stranger would put pressure on the other side, and appear to be over motivated. We began to reflect on the possibility of turning the passive ones into the active ones, and create more interaction.
Problem Statement
We then summed up the problems and stated them in one simple question:
Sitemap
We first discussed about the functions and pages we need, used basic card sorting to form the architecture, and then arranged them into sitemap.
Wireframe
Since the App combines activities and friends, the information is more complicated. We discussed, designed many versions of wireframe and adjusted to make the content more clear and readable.
Feature Intro
User Flow
Style Guide & Components
What's next?
Official Activity
We want to launch official activity to add some fun and enhance interaction between users, since there is possibility that some users may have fewer friends or activities lack participants.
Guest Mode
To let people browse and have a preliminary understanding of our product, we decided to add guest mode in the future.
User testing
We want to know if the current UI is suitable and friendly for users, so it is important to have user testing in the
next step.
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