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Dating-app Research

Mike Hovenier | Tech-4

Dating Features

• Liking: Liking random strangers that might fit your searching filter (by swiping or tapping).
• Superliking: Superliking a random stranger so they get a notification and feel extra special.
• Undo: If you disliked/liked someone but changed your mind and want to undo it.
• Someone likes you: Some random stranger liked you, you can only see a blurry picture of that person till you liked him/her back.
• You have a match: You and the stranger have liked eachother, you have a match and can start to chat now.
• Visitor notification: People have visited your profile, you get a notification.
• Searching filter: Searching what kind of type you are looking for with the filter function.
• Chat: A chat where you can chat with your matches or random strangers.
• Nearby strangers: See if people are nearby your current location.
• Your popularity indicator: A indicator that indicates your current succes.
• Your profile: Editting your profile to your liking (adding photo's, video's, status, your bio).
• Personal data: Your personal data: location, photo's, video's, age, gender.
• Social-media connection: Connecting with Instagram, Facebook, to use certaint information.

Strangers to connection

1. Find each other.
2. Get to know each other.
3. Building a connection.
4. Meet each other in real life.
5. Have a good time together.

What kind of dating apps or sites are there (benchmark)

• Tinder: Find love by swiping pictures and chatting to meet each other. Its quick, easy to learn and free, casual dating.
• Badoo: Find love by swiping pictures and chatting to meet each other. Its quick, easy to learn and free, casual dating.
• Hot or Not: Find love by swiping pictures and chatting to meet each other. Really about your photo appearance, hot or not?
• Happn: Chat with the people you have walked by in a lovely way. Meeting people you walked by that can be the perfect one.
• Pepper: Find love by swiping pictures and chatting to meet each other. Collage of photo's not only the person, but also their interests.
• Lexa: Find love by swiping pictures and chatting to meet each other. Really focussing on the "perfect one".

Job Stories

The Job stories are based on the features I want to dive in (so not the whole dating-app): My Job story is: When I'm chilling in my room listening to my music, I want be notified that I have a match with somemone or someone likes me, so I can see who it is and maybe get to know them.

When, I want to, So I can Situation, Motivation, Expected Outcome

Old Job stories:

• As a user, I want to talk to the people I'm in match with, so we can get to know each other.
• As a user, I want to know if someone text me, so I can reply.
• As a user, I want to know if I have a match, so I can see with who I match.
• As a user, I want to see if someone visited me, so I can see who might is interested.
• As a user, I want to see my current chats with off matches, so I can talk with them.

General Job Stories dating-app:

• As a user, I want to find people, so I can get to know them.
• As a user, I want to adjust my profile, so I can change it to my liking.
• As a user, I want to connect my social-media, so they have more information.
• As a user, I want to only find people that life nearby, so I can get to know them easier.

When I'm walking arround on the streets outside on a sunny day, I want to be able to chat with the people I'm in match with, so we can have a nice talk and really get to know eachother.

Research through existing dating-apps

• Tinder

• Badoo

• Hot or not

• Happn

• Pepper

• Lexa

Research Gestures of dating-apps

All the apps have kind of the same gestures (gestures are invisible buttons like swipe or tap). Here are differences they use.

	Tinder	Badoo	Hot or not	Happn	Pepper	Lexa
Like	Swipe Right, Tap	Swipe Right, Tap	Swipe Right, Tap	Swipe Right, Tap	Tap	Swipe Right, Tap
Dislike	Swipe Left, Tap	Swipe Left, Tap	Swipe Left, Tap	Swipe Left, Tap	-	Swipe Left, Tap
Superlike	Swipe Up, Tap	Tap	Tap	Tap	-	-
Undo	Tap	Tap	Tap	-	-	-
Match Pop-up	Tap	Tap	Tap	Tap	Tap	Tap
Bio Details	Tap	Swipe Down	Swipe Down	Swipe Down	Swipe Down	Tap

Source

Datingsite Pepper: vind jouw liefde online met dé dating site! (n.d.). Retrieved May 11, 2020, from https://www.pepper.nl/

Datingsite | Schrijf je gratis in en bekijk profielen van singles op Lexa. (n.d.). Retrieved May 11, 2020, from https://www.lexa.nl/

Hot or Not - Ontmoet nieuwe mensen. (n.d.). Retrieved May 11, 2020, from https://www.hotornot.nl/

Ontmoet Nieuwe Mensen op Badoo, Maak Vrienden, Chat en Flirt. (n.d.). Retrieved May 11, 2020, from https://badoo.com/nl/

Tinder | Match. Chat. Date. (n.d.). Retrieved May 11, 2020, from https://tinder.com/?lang=nl

Vind de mensen terug die je tegenkomt. (n.d.). Retrieved May 11, 2020, from https://www.happn.com/nl/