Roles: UI / UX Engineer, Interaction Designer, Visual Designer, Researcher
Type: Human-Technology Interface, Usable
Tools: Figma, Adobe Illustrate, Procreate
Team: Self-Employed
Mentors: Hannah Pak
Duration: 2 weeks (July 2022)
How might we design an efficient and applicable Instagram bookmarking solution that fits well into the current user interface and can be seamlessly integrated into the already densely populated environments?
P.S.
This project is meant for critique and additional edits so please contact me with an inspired ideas! Let's start off with what was the problem and how I solved it.
Scrolling through 100's of instagram posts is boring. No offense to all the people who took awesome pictures on their summer trip to Europe, but I only wanted to see the main accounts I follow today.
After interviewing people around my age at UC Berkeley, I found that this want was universal and I should do something about it. In fact, it was a common complaint that Instagram has been lacking on innovation for the past decade and has remained constant. Other problems that people brought up was the inability to move around posts to people’s liking, and add more personality to the user’s profile. I decided to focus on the most popular and feasible one: bookmarking accounts that you want to scroll through without seeing excessant accounts. Here is the before:
<aside> 📌 What are your thoughts on the Instagram user interface currently, and what change would you like to see?
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<aside> 📌 What are your thoughts on bookmarking accounts, so you can select who you would like to see on your?
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<aside> 📌 How would you consider an implementation of this bookmarking addition to the Instagram user interface?
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<aside> 📌 On a scale of 1-10, how useful do you think this addition will be to the interface?
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