Iphone showing a screen from a dating app with two people chatting
Confirmation screen with a moon icon confirming a dating app subscription
Iphone showing a screen from a dating app with two people chatting

New Moon

New Moon is a dating app that keeps everyone in mind. Users can upload their schedules within the app to find matches with similar schedules.

Project Overview

Challenge

New Moon is a dating app designed for people with unconventional schedules, such as night shift workers, freelancers, and parents. The challenge was to seamlessly integrate features into a normal dating app flow that prioritizes availability compatibility. The app needed to simplify finding matches with similar availability, while making it fast and easy to connect in the real world. From the design aspect, New Moon needed to have a whimsical essence, while remaining polished.

Solution

  • Design a mobile app dating experience centered around schedule compatibility

  • Create a clear and intuitive system for visualizing overlapping availability

  • Develop a clear brand identity that feels polished and nocturnal

  • Streamline the flow from matching and messaging to facilitate real-world meetups

Task

App design and branding

Roles

Tools

Researcher

Figma

Designer

Illustrator

Tester

Goal

Provide users with a digital space to connect with other users who are navigating similar challenges, creating opportunities for meaningful and lasting relationships.

Match users based on schedule compatibility

Create an engaging and intuitive solution for schedule input

Streamline setting up dates

Design Process

Research

Target Audience

Primary:

  • Adults in their twenties to forties, who are navigating their peak social hours falling outside of the norm

  • Need a dating app where people are active outside of traditional peak hours

  • They are seeking serious relationships and need logistical compatibility

Secondary:

  • Adults in their twenties to forties who are frustrated by scheduling conflicts

  • Need a way to find people to date that have similar free time

  • They struggle to successfully coordinate dates

Pain Points

Limited off-peak hours engagement

Date scheduling friction

User Flow

Image of the process of a user using a dating app depicted with ovals, rectangles, and diamonds.
Image of the process of a user using a dating app depicted with ovals, rectangles, and diamonds.

Wireframes

Sketches of a dating app layout depecting log in, profile, and matching confirmation
Sketches of a dating app layout depicting potential matches

Low-Fidelity Prototype

Walkthrough of signing up and filling out profile for a dating app

High-Fidelity Prototype

Sign Up Flow

Walks through how to sign up and pick a subscription on a dating app

Schedule Input

Gif walks through inputting availability in a weekly and monthly view

Match & Schedule a Date

Gif walks through the process of matching with someone to scheduling a date on a dating app

Usability Testing

Overview

Type

Moderated Usability Study

Duration

30 minutes

Where

Remote - Conducted over Microsoft Teams

Participant

Fellow college classmate

Task

Participant was asked to send a date request to Jamie

Insights

Easy

Participant noted the interface is mostly intuitive

  • Supporting evidence that users want easy and intuitive solutions

  • Users need an easy way to upload their schedules that is flexible

  • Some text is too small

Fast

Participant mentioned that they enjoyed completing the task and that it was easy

  • Supporting evidence that users want fast solutions'

  • Users need a way to schedule a date fast

Affinity Diagram

Digital sticky notes organized into four quadrents labeled pictures, tone, confusion, and aesthetic

Usability Iterations

Moon Icon

The moon icon in the nav bar was changed to a home icon

Color Adjustments

Changes were made to text and backgrounds to improve readability

Availability

Reduced clutter and used better grouping to make the availability input screens easier to navigate

Settings

Moved the user profile to be under Settings

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