My final project for CFPN542 -

1. 2020 was a challenging year for me
like everyone else
2020 was a challenging year
2020 was a challenging year with
many obstacles to overcome…

2. 2020 was a challenging year for me
like everyone else
I started working on multiple things
to survive…

3. 2020 was a challenging year for me
like everyone else
I found
m
yself lost in
m
any
things
to
be
done…

4. I felt that life was passing very fast
and I was not feeling the joy…

5. Because I forgot to discover new
things and experiences to make me
feel connected…

6. Therefore, I needed to find a
way to…

7. Make time for new discoveries

9. aloha is a social planning app that allows you to
make time for new discoveries and match with
different activities by local artists & organizations
based on your calendar

10. aloha presents you with three options to sign-in:
With Google
With Facebook
With Phone Number
aloha makes sure you have a smooth sign-in so that
you can start making new discoveries

11. As the first step, aloha syncs with your phone’s calendar
to retrieve your calendar information

12. User Profile
Discovery Button
Calendar
Back Arrow

13. Once aloha is synced with your calendar, it detects your
available slots so aloha’s recommendation engine
provides activities that can fit in your agenda
You don’t need to think about creating time for new
discoveries
aloha makes time and discovers them for you

14. aloha offers you various of different options from Contemporary Art
to AcroYoga to discover
aloha will be aggregating the options by local artists as a priority
You choose up to 3 activities and then ’continue’ to discover the
activities

15. aloha presents you a new activity, if you like it you just swipe it right
If you don’t like the activity, just swipe it left and aloha will present you
another activity
Swipe right to like and add the activity to your calendar
Swipe left to get a new recommendation
Click on the picture to see the details of the event
Functionality Reference: Tinder
Undo Button

16. When clicked on the visual in the previous screen,
with a flip effect, aloha shows the event details, location,
artist information along with social media accounts
‘Details’ button opens the website of the event within the
app
Social media icons are the accounts related to the event
Functionality Reference: Tinder

17. When the user swipes the event right,
aloha automatically adds it to the calendar
In case the event is a ticketed one, aloha offers the ticket purchase option
aloha gives the option to invite your friends to the activity

18. During the creation of aloha, I used two tools:
MockFlow: For wireframe design
Thunkable: To design the screens and apply the
intended functionality to create a demo of the app
Thunkable Demo: https://bit.ly/3qtvZtY

19. aloha is the Hawaiian greeting word that also means
love, affection, peace, compassion and mercy but it
has a deeper cultural and spiritual significance.
Native Hawaiians uses aloha as a force that holds
the existence together.
During this challenging time, we need love,affection,
peace, compassion especially for ourselves so
I named the app aloha

20. As color palette, I used the Official Colors of the flowers for Hawaiian Islands
and used Turquoise that represents the water surrounding these islands
Smashing Logo website was used to design the logo of the app
In addition, this song was one of the inspiration for the app name
Møme - Aloha (Official Music Video) ft. Merryn Jeann

21. Social Planning apps are on the rise and one of the most successful one IRL is
attracting both users and investors

22. For this project, I came up with a solution to a personal problem:
Not finding time for new discoveries to refresh myself!
The problem is not a productivity problem but a problem of being overloaded
So I decided to create an app that I would personally use – I took some reference features
from Tinder as to make the discoveries more spontaneous and to enable quick decisions
In addition, I tried to have less screens to create an almost seamless experience
This class taught me how to create user interfaces and I really enjoyed using MockFlow
Although I had challenges with Thunkable at first, I was able to create a demo for my idea
in a short span of time
If I had more time, I’d put more research into the competitive landscape and
user personas

23. But I know that I’d personally use aloha
as it is literally the first mobile app that I
created J
After the CFPN542 class, I’ll focus on
MockFlow and Thunkable to create
some app demos
I also realized that using MockFlow
made me really happy and motivated so
I’d consider to deepen my experience for
the creation of wireframes.
Another design that I made with
MockFlow – A Digital Starbucks Cup

24. M.Cagdas ONEN
cagdas.onen@ryerson.ca