ROLE

Lead Designer

TEAM

Alix Cui, Gray Zhang, Godsfavour Simon

Overview

OUTCOME

Bloom—a mobile app designed to help college students maintain and develop their existing friendships

PROBLEM

How can we create a framework that allows busy university students to stay connected, engaged with, and enriched in their friendships?

Final Prototype

Demo of complete features shown to Facebook executives & recruiters

INTERACTIVE PROTOTYPE

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I. TOOLS & LIBRARIES

• Objective C, Xcode, Github

• Apple’s ARKit, MapKit, AF Networking

• Parse for database, and Artsy’s API for data

II. HARDCODING

Because the app didn’t have any users at the time of this project, uploads were hardcoded for demo purposes

Summary

I really enjoyed bringing to life a product that shares and makes more accessible to others an interest close to my heart (as an Art History minor). It was very fulfilling challenging myself to build a mobile app from scratch, simultaneously both from a design and engineering standpoint—from backend and database all the way to user interface, branding, and experience.

Thank you so much to Nick Swift, my manager, and the rest of the Facebook Stories team for their continued support.