One of the most famous dating app in the world, Tinder, has found a way to match over 20 million people per year. The app developers constructed and improved the design of this app to try and recreate the real-life experience on your mobile phone. Their aim was to make it as simple as possible, following user experience progress and implementing only the features users would love.
But in this article, it is not our topic to discuss Tinder; instead, we would like to take a look at what had Tinder inspired in the world of design and how has it contributed to playfulness and creativity of designers and other app developers.
Last week we shared with you some useful tools for typography online. One of the interesting apps that’s left unmentioned is Font Flame – Tinder for font matching. By using this app, you are looking at different font combinations and you are using the swipe concept to generate which combinations you loved and which ones you will avoid using. It is still an early prototype, yet it solves one common problem for designers, and these “matches” between fonts are inspired by the Tinder app.
While talking about the swipe concept, let’s see some ideas on Dribble from designers all over the world, and see what are their ideas inspired by this swiping for yes/no concept. In 2016, these ideas were extremely trending. For example, Berkay came up with an app that helps you choose the right product you want, based on your preferences :
https://bit.ly/2OCyu9X
Alex van Zijl brainstormed and shared his ideas about Movie Swiper, or how to use the swiping concept to choose the right movie for you
https://bit.ly/2Nua5Xy
Madalin also shared on Dribble an idea about how cool he thinks it would be to develop a Tinder for social events, such as Conferences. He added really nice design and used the networking concept of such social events to develop an actual web through which you are exploring your colleagues. He would also allow more details in the profile, as well as tags of interests to make the search more efficient.
https://bit.ly/2xBKUaW
The concept of Tinder, as well as speed dating, is often used as a warm-up on Congresses, Conferences, and Training all over the globe. Not to mention the Late Late Live Tinder and similar spin-offs this app has brought to the media.
We hope we inspired you to think about using an old style for a new idea, create a new original concept and kick-start your product. For the end, we would like to also mention nasserui and his new experiment on how he would change the style of Tinder (it also comes with some special effects every time you swipe left or right)
https://bit.ly/2NYDo3R
Some of these ideas might come really handy, don’t you think?
About the author
Nina Petrov is an activist, poet, performer and mathematician. She communicates with the world mostly through words, movement and equations, but sometimes also by speaking very loudly. The only truth she could say about herself is that she keeps changing every day, never stops learning and interacting with her surroundings.
