Role
Product Designer
Team
1 x Designer
Contributions
UX/UI
User Research
Design Systems
Interaction Design
Duration
6 weeks
⟢ Project Overview
Flint is an iOS mobile app and creative community forum for aspiring to mid-level UX designers aimed to encourage discussions and constructive feedback around work-in-progress, portfolios, case studies, and resume reviews. The community can engage in design thinking discussions with each other by posting their work at any stage of their design process for receiving and engaging in interactive discussions to improve their work and professional connections.
⟢ Problem
Designers lack an effective way to engage in real-time collaboration, brainstorm, share work in-progress, and decision-making in a remote environment.
UX communities are fragmented across platforms and even with apps like Reddit and Slack that facilitate the creation of UX sub communities. Many have barriers of entry, stagnant, or limited in multimedia support, user engagement, and meaningful social interaction.
Listening before Building
Current conversations online.
How might we retain active engagement to encourage collaboration and discussions around complex design problems?
You're a ux designer who just finished creating your first draft of wireframes for a booking application. You post your work in a sub community on Reddit and after waiting an hour, your post has not received any engagement. Wouldn't it be nice if you could start a live community discussion to interact with people?
Why do we need this? Existing UX communities fail to support different styles of learning, multi-modal inputs, in-depth discussions and structured feedback loops.
The fragmentation of functionality across existing platforms forces people to navigate multiple spaces, each with its own identity and processes, making it difficult to establish a particular group to be a part of.
Design an app that facilitates instant, intuitive, real-time collaboration that feels human.
To keep the community active and engaging , I designed flint to adapt to different styles of communication and reflect in-person creative discussions.
5 Key Features
User Profiles
showcase projects you needed feedback on and connect with others.
Discussion Forum
Engage in conversations to help each other out.
Tagging & Categorization
Easily find and organize feedback by project type or creative discipline.
Notification System
Stay updated on feedback and discussions.
Interactive Critique
Receive in-depth feedback through interactive tools such as annotation capabilities.
⟢ Information Architecture
⟢ Wireframes
⟢ User Flows
Quick App Overview
Posting a Comment
Sharing Your Work
⟢ Visual Design
Flint was one of the primary materials used for making tools during the Stone Age
Just like its namesake, Flint is a tool for the modern creative, designed to inspire and elevate their work through collaboration and feedback.
