Hacknext
Streetchat
The post-pandemic era, significant changes have taken place in social life. We created a social APP with maps as its core, creating a real-time map platform, which allows users to explore the city from a brand new perspective and share aspect of city life with friends and other citizens anywhere. Our goal is to use this platform to promote community interaction, enabling users to discover in various local events and activities in real time.
In the post-epidemic era, the social life has changed, and the community application primarily based on city maps creates a real-time chat map platform for you to rediscover the city from a different perspective. You can share important events happening in your residential city with your friends and fellow citizens anytime, anywhere.
The Problem, Goal and Challenge
Lack of geographical context: Current social platforms often lack geographical connections, making it difficult for users to truly understand the environmental background of events.
Lack of immediacy and on-site feeling in information: Many pieces of information on social platforms are only published after the fact, making it impossible for users to obtain first-hand information about ongoing events in a timely manner.
Lack of localized content: Many social platforms feature overly broad and homogenized content that is disconnected from users' actual living environment.
Inability to promote offline interactions: Traditional social platforms are limited to online communication and are unable to effectively translate online socializing into offline interactions.
Goal
Explore a new perspective of the city. The map-based community offers a new angle to rediscover and understand the city, allowing users to explore the unique stories and interesting things about the city from a geographical perspective, thereby deepening their understanding and identification with the city they reside in.
Solution
Post through the map, similar to Google Map's location-based posting, and introduce group functionality to bring together people with similar interests to participate in community activities.
Utilize different permission layers so that users can share with their friends or groups while maintaining privacy.
The Process
Product Plan
Mockup
Takeaways
The most challenging aspect of designing Street Talk is the variety of states in the community, such as the empty state before posting, the posting state, and the success or failure of sending. These states must be clarified before designing the user experience.
In addition, there are a lot of norms to consider within the community, which also impact user experience. Overall, it's a challenging product.
