Users can buy tickets and discover events in their city. Unlike Facebook Local, Eventbrite focused on public events only. Music festivals, venues, marathons, conferences, hackathons, air guitar contests, political rallies, fundraisers, gaming competitions.Įventbrite can be considered to be an indirect competitor. “It is good that Facebook can collate public and private events to be in one app for users to see what events or hangout your friends are going to, but at some point, there are too many things going on in one app.” - Team Analysis EventbriteĮventbrite allows anyone to create, share, find and attend new things to do that fuel their passions and enrich their lives. Although, it may seem like a positive factor one major problem we found is information cluttering which can affect a users cognitive experience of using the app.

When we dove into the app, we have noticed the amount data Facebook has for being a tech giant and having millions of active users. The aim of facebook local is to discover places to go to and for a user to explore events happening near them. Major Competitors: Facebook Local & Eventbrite Facebook Local

While the UX Team were busy conducting further research, the UI Team started on gut tests. An all in one system for hangouts Gut Test (UI) There is an overwhelming amount of users illustrating frustrations with planning hangouts and events: However, people also prefer to have options for both depending on the information being displayed on the screen.Ī majority of people are currently using texting, phone calls and chats (WhatsApp, Messanger) to invite friends to hangouts/events. Majority of users like to use email or username as a method of adding friendsĪ majority would want a map view for location-based apps. Time, People & Type of event are among the most important deciding factor for people to attend a friend’s hangout/event Below are some of our key findings after getting 100 responses in 36 hours.

Once agreeing on the questions that should be on the survey we sent out the survey.

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