OUGD603: Extended Practice - Heartbeat Boards

OUGD603: Extended Practice - Brief 12 Heartbeat Final App

OUGD603: Extended Practice - Brief 12 Research

As research for this brief I spoke with a number of people who commonly use online dating sites such as tinder and happn. When speaking to these people I asked if they would like to find relationships based on their musical interests. Many of the people I asked said yes they would. One user said they would like to have the opportunity to buy gig or festival tickets and meet their matches at the events. This idea was also brought up at CODE Computerlove, I therefore plan to include this feature in my app design.

Secondary research:

I looked at other dating site apps and websites to see what features they offered. I decided to use some of the same features from the Tinder app such as the swipe feature. 

OUGD603: Extended Practice - Brief 12 Wireframes and Development

Most of my development process is within my Red file and has a lot of notes within it. I believe that the file details more about my development and it would be detrimental to my design practice to repeat myself.

Navigation bar and icons

Wireframes for navigation bar:

Login page without image background

Login page without logo:

Match page:

OUGD603: Extended Practice - Brief 12 Heartbeat Idea and Logo Development

I attended a graduate experience day at CODE computerlove in Manchester. See PPP Post here. From this I chose to design the Heartbeat app.

I wanted to develop the logo with a music and love link together. I carried out some research into other logos that use music notes and hearts in interesting ways.

Out of all the images I found this image the most effective. I plan to perfect this idea.