B Y D Y L A N J O H N S O N , E L L I O T T T R E I N E N ,

C H E Y E N N E B O B R O W I C Z , M A D I S O N M U R P H Y,

A N D W I L L I A M Z H A N G

GameFinder

The Situation

GameFinder

Who? Teens and young adults.

What? Socializing face-to-face.

Where? Anywhere.

When? Whenever. Day or night.

Why? A need to be social.

How? An easy-to-use interface letting you easily organize events.

The Problem

People nowadays spend all their time staring

at screens. We socialize through websites

like Facebook. We use mobile apps and

games to connect across hundreds of miles.

Sadly, this has resulted in a huge decrease of

people in a local area socializing face-to-

face. GameFinder is designed to remedy this

through the use of a mobile app.

The Question

How do we get people to meet new people

and socialize through methods other than

their phones?

Insight

Ease-of-use lets people satisfy their desire to

socialize in a real-world setting with a

minimal amount of effort.

The Pitch

My team, GameFinder, is developing a

mobile app which will help teens and young

adults who have trouble getting outside meet

new people and being active by bringing an

easy-to-use platform to socialize to their

mobile phones.

Interviews

When we asked Max Horne if he wanted

an easier time meeting new people, he said

“Yes.”

Colin Leslie said “I could imagine using it

to meet new people.”

We asked Peter Howard-Snyder how often

he hung out with friends outside of school.

He said “Not very often.”

Flow

The app has a very intuitive and minimalistic

interface. It uses the least amount of buttons

possible and all the ones that are there are

clearly marked. From the main menu you

can find, host, or open a map with all events

near you marked out. Events contain time,

location, and place with details available to

be pulled up.

Wireframes

Wireframes

Wireframes

Feasibility

App will be easy and simple to program.

Simple text uses very little data. Map is

completely optional.

There is little competition. It is an idea

that hasn’t been fully explored before.

Reaches markets that might never have

been reached otherwise.

Competition

The only real competition is called MeetUp, which focuses on creating persistent, dedicated groups of people.

GameFinder focuses on singular events with no future time requirement. Because people aren’t signing up for something, they are more likely to try it. This one-time no-commitment style also resonates more with today’s teens and young adults.