“WeChat”
About this Project:
This app is called WeChat and it’s about online chatting with people of different ages. It can be for school work or just for fun in a safe and monitored setting. It’s like video/text chat and you can talk to other people, friends and family.
The app is going to be mainly for teenagers. It’s not safe for a kid to be online chatting with strangers. To make the users comfortable, the user’s age will be displayed at all times. Also to ensure you are speaking with a user that is the age that is displayed, certain filters won’t be allowed to be used while on the app.
The app also can help people go out their comfort zone and be themselves both online and in real life.
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I also felt seeing the screen where the user picks topics makes me think you all thought about personalization which is a smart idea to keep users coming back to your app. That really stood out to me and is something I wanted to highlight in my review. :)
The slide deck and mockups clearly helped me understand the user journey and how you all thought about visualizing the solution to the problem you decided to solve.
I think it would be a good idea to explore Apple's and Google's design systems for their smartphones. While they are similar, they each treat components like buttons and patterns like navigation slightly differently. You can make an app look and feel however you like, though I believe in using familiar and well-design elements when possible to help reduce user confusion, design, and development time.
Some features I liked were the ability for users to add other users to a video or text chat. Very well thought through! I think that would be a useful and wanted feature for communication apps like yours. I also liked your strategy to ensure people don't lie about their age and then display that age on the user interface. Being a parent of two high schoolers I worry about who is on the other side of the video games my sons play. I also like how you gave users different ways to find topics to join and chat in. Not everyone finds things the same way. Some like using search boxes and some like seeing the options and clicking through to find what they want. I thought it was cool you all figured that out and implemented it in your app.
Congratulations on creating WeChat! I imagine the journey has been both hard and rewarding. I hope you all keep going, trying to solve other problems using technology in this wonderful world and age we are living in.
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