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  UI Design: Full

Inspiration

We came to Stanford expecting a vibrant college atmosphere. Yet walk past a volleyball or basketball court at Stanford mid-Winter quarter, and you’ll probably find it empty. As college students, our lives revolve around two pillars: productivity and play. In an ideal world, we spend intentional parts of our day fully productive–activities dedicated to our fulfillment–and some parts of our day fully immersed in play–activities dedicated solely to our joy. In reality, though, students might party, but how often do they play? Large chunks of their day are spent in their dorm room, caught between these two choices, doing essentially nothing. This doesn’t improve their mental health. Imagine, or rather, remember, when you were last in that spot. Even if you were struck by inspiration to get out and do something fun, who with? You could text your friends, but you don’t know enough people to play 4-on-4 soccer, or if anyone’s interested in joining you for some baking between classes.

A Solution

When encountering this problem, frolic can help. Users can: See existing events, sorted by events “containing” most of their friends at the top Join an event, getting access to the names of all members of event (not just their friends) Or, save/bookmark an event for later (no notification sent to others) Access full info of events they’ve joined or saved in the “My Events” tab

Additional, nice-to-have features include: Notification if their friend(s) have joined an event in case they’d like to join as well

Challenges & An Important Lesson

Not only had none of us had iOS app development experience, but with less than 12 hours to go, we realized with the original environment and language we were working in (Swift and XCode), the learning curve to create the full app was far too steep. Thus, we essentially started anew. We realized the importance of reaching out for guidance from more experienced people early on, whether at a hackathon, academic, or career-setting. /* Deep down, we know how important times of play are–though, we often never seem to “have time” for it. In reality, this often is correlated with us being caught in a rift between the two poles we mentioned: not being totally productive, nor totally grasping the joy that we should ideally get from some everyday activities. */

Built With

• javascript
• react