Nearby for twitter

Summary

Nearby is a personal exercise to see how a twitter-based app can enhance profile that are managed by businesses and venues. Think of it as a marriage between Yelp & Twitter.

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Problem | Issues

A lot of times when users go to restaurants, cafes, or random places, one of the first things they do is tweet about it. 
A lot of businesses are able to communicate with their followers through short tweets. However the business account is still treated as a regular user account, when most of the time the businesses are sharing news about their products or retweeting user's reviews. 

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Tasks & Stories

Scenarios I wanted this design to cater for:

• Users can check the nearby feed for businesses around them and see relevant tweets.
• Users can check the business profile for more detailed info.
• Businesses can add the hours, phone numbers and other information they see relevant.
• The business profile will be a set of reviews, photos and tweets the business decides to promote.

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design

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Enhanced business profile

Businesses can add more relevant information like hours, tags, phone numbers, addresses.

They can also promote specific tweets from users. This is good both for twitter and the business.

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badge system

Introducing the badge system creates an incentive for users to tweet and review. Every time a user tweets a review about a business he increases the bar to get a new badge on twitter.

This allows users to see the level of each reviewer and how reliable they are as a source of information. 

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NEARBY Feed

Nearby feed shows all nearby businesses to the users. Each profile is accompanied by the most recent tweet and a rating of the business.

A curated list of places allows users to find things they might be interested in.