ABOUT

SUBMISSION FOR A DESIGN CHALLENGE

THE CHALLENGE
​This exercise is to design the home screen for an iOS app based around “discussions” or chat rooms. The app has a number of predetermined “channels” based on topics such as cooking, science, and movies. Users can participate in or create new “discussions” to go within any of the channels (e.g. “What is the best kind of rice?” in the cooking channel).

This app is a public app with public discussions and profiles, it is not intended for private messaging. The app should be broadly appealing and easy to use, not directed at a specific audience.

Please propose a design for the home screen while keeping in mind the apps overall structure and navigation. If you need to design a second screen to communicate your ideas, please do, but 2 screens maximum.

SUMMARY OF MY THOUGHT PROCESS
I didn't have enough time to design all the screens

I started off by first listing out the information I had about the challenge.

I did this so I could have an understanding of the requirements, the information provided and the information not provided

As I was doing that I was also writing down apps/platforms that I thought was doing something similar so I thought of slack, WhatsApp, Naira land forum.

I checked to see how they were displaying information for both new and returning users what kind of information they were displaying etc.

So I wrote down some Rules
For New users, I decided that they would have access to view discussions as guest users. Say they need to know "how to get rid of the smell of burnt food" they can come online to search on the topic and read answers to it however in order to start a discussion or comment on an already existing one they would have to create an account.

I decided to have just general information on the home screen which is an upgrade to my initial idea where I thought I could include both trending discussions as well as a list of active discussions. I had to consider the fact that guest users would not have access to this information and instead decided to display popular discussions.

If a guest user were to swipe right to the discussions page it, it would display a picture telling them that they do not have any active chats and suggest that they either log in or register to join a conversation