Please click on the links below to check out my digital prototypes.
Link to PDF: Assorted HD
Link to marvel demo: https://marvelapp.com/53h31fh
Feedback:
- This is only a one to one connection. What is there was a way to have a group chat/meal?
- Is there a way for users to add/remove friends to show up?
Three things that I changed from my paper prototype:
-Narrowed down and focused on One Concept. The concept is to eat or grab a meal with a nearby friend. This is map based and you can immediately choose a time/restaurant.
– Simpler navigation and fewer pages. My previous prototype had many components and many pages. With narrowing down my concept and by focussing on one idea, I achieved a simpler navigation.
-Sign in through Facebook to identify nearby friends. To avoid the whole sign up and sign in effect, the user would have to sign in through Facebook to find nearby friends and dine with them.
Thanks! 🙂
Hi Gunjan, I love your idea. This one is much simpler and focusing on a specific scenario. I would definitely want to use this with my closed friends. And this actually leads to some questions. Where do I get my friends, from facebook? Your app is asking to share my real-time position, what if I only want to share my position with only a few friends? So I think you maybe need to consider a friend list, and ways to add/delete friends. Also, the self-introduction on your profile view, it looks more like introductions for strangers and new friends. So how can I see other people’s profile? Why do I need that if you are already my facebook friends? So it comes back to the “friends problem”. What kind of friends am I using this app with and how can I add them? It doesn’t seem very clear to me.
Conversation view:
I think you might want to check the conversation views of other apps, like iMessage, Messenger…. “My” portrait is on the right, and my friend’s portrait is on the left. So your interface at first makes me a little confused. I don’t know if you have any special reasons to design like that, but I think you should test it with your users to see if they feel okay with that.
I think you might need to work more on the visual design. Because for now, it is a little inconsistent. The “chat” icon on the left with big shadow doesn’t match to others. And you are using lots of colors, I think it might be a good idea if you can narrow them down to one/two branding color.