UX Exercise: Multi-chat

As a personal challenge, I ran an exercise of researching and exploring solutions for a common behavior I found where users tends to chat with multiple people at the same time.

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Problem

Looking for a problem to solve, I found an stadistic about how young people tend to have multiple conversation at the same time, but applications make the transition between conversation a non-intuitive task (at that time).

Hypothesis

After analyzing gesture patterns, UX would improve if users could switch between conversation with a simple swip action, and each person is easily identified with a color. Here the interactive prototype 

Results

This only was a concept for learning purposes. This exercise was documented in this article which received positive responses.

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After exploration of common modern patterns, user could change conversation swiping on the screen.

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