Friendly: App for real-life connections
I'm excited to share Friendly, a solo UX/UI case study I worked on during my boot camp. It's a local-first social app designed to help people make meaningful connections through shared interests, events, and casual meetups.
I’d love to hear your thoughts!
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Hi✨
Wow, you've put in an absolutely massive, truly incredible amount of work on this Friendly project! It's genuinely so cool – you've conducted such comprehensive research, from diving deep into the problem of loneliness to creating detailed personas and concepts. I can really see how much effort, thought, and empathy you've poured into every single stage to create an app that genuinely helps people.
Your approach to User Research – from desk research to interviews and surveys – is simply exemplary. You didn't just uncover real user needs, you brilliantly used those insights to clearly frame the problem and propose solutions. Your HMW statements and subsequent wireframes perfectly translate those needs into functionality. I particularly love how you considered the visual design with its warm and energetic palette. It perfectly matches the app's purpose!
Now, just to make your app even better and more accessible for every single user, I have one little thought:
🟪 Main Button Contrast: I noticed that the shade of your main button (for example, the "Next" button on onboarding or "Join" on event screens) looks really lovely, but there's a chance it might not pass contrast accessibility with the text on it. To make sure that button is effortlessly readable for everyone, including users with visual impairments (in line with WCAG), I'd suggest making its shade just a touch darker. It's a small tweak, but it will significantly boost the accessibility and usability of your wonderful app.
You've done an outstanding job from start to finish, creating a truly thoughtful and empathetic solution for such an important social problem. Keep up the incredible work. You're genuinely inspiring!
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