We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer about their original and creative design work. is an award-winning creative designer, that makes our world a better place with their original works.
("") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work . Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
: We all have the will to expand our social circles, but the biggest challenge is how we can find the right people without wasting our time on the endless social media feeds. The project is inspired by the finding that nowadays people still prefer to establish closer personal offline connections even they might first "meet" those new friends online.
: Buddy is an app that can allow users to meet their colleagues whom they might not know during daily work. Compared to the existing community apps, Buddy is starting from the workplaces. Additionally, Buddy focuses on "light and effortless" social networking. It firstly finds people who share similar backgrounds and interests with users, then deepens their connections during the short breaks in weekdays, like lunch or afternoon coffee time.
: The project's design part started in 2015 and it took three months to launch the app's beta version.
: Sketch and other prototyping tools.
: This project is collaboratively built with three engineers.
: The project gathered real user data from interviews, surveys and prototype testing. The app's three personas are created based on users’ daily routines and their needs.
: The hardest challenge of this project is to create a smooth online-offline transition during the meeting process. The process starts from the app: users set up the meeting type then the app matches them a person and location. Later they will meet the person offline, while they can provide feedbacks about the meeting in the app to improve future matches.
