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Informational Architecture:
Informational Architecture:
Drop A Pin’s structure was designed with clarity and ease of navigation in mind. The app is built around five main areas: the welcome screen, home/feed, explore, lists, and user profile. Each section supports a specific aspect of the user experience — from discovering new spots to organizing future travel plans.
Key Navigation Paths:
Key Navigation Paths:
Onboarding begins with a simple sign-up or login, where users input preferences like location interests or travel categories to personalize their experience.
The Home/Feed is a dynamic, image-based hub showing trending or local recommendations. Users can scroll through, save places to custom boards, and view details like reviews and map locations.
Explore Mode offers a map-based view for users who want to browse by proximity, category, or filters (e.g. budget-friendly, WiFi-enabled).
Lists act as visual folders where users can save and organize favorite places.
The Profile Page gives users access to their own uploads, reviews, and saved pins.
By mapping out this structure early, we ensured a cohesive flow that supports exploration, planning, and contribution — all within a few taps.
User Flows:
User Flows:
User flow mapping helped us define how users would move through the app to complete key actions. We focused on making core interactions intuitive and rewarding, particularly for first-time users.
1. Onboarding to Home Feed
1. Onboarding to Home Feed
This flow walks users from the Welcome Page into a personalized experience based on their interests:
Welcome Page: Users choose to log in or sign up.
Login Flow: Returning users enter their username and password. They can also choose "remember me" or reset their password if needed.
Sign Up Flow: New users enter details like name, username, contact, and password. They're prompted to choose interests such as location types and travel categories.
After completing setup, users are directed to the Home Feed, which is customized based on their selected interests.
This onboarding process ensures users land on relevant, inspiring content from their very first session.
2. Post Interaction and Save Flow
2. Post Interaction and Save Flow
This flow covers how users engage with content on the feed and save spots for future trips:
On the Home Feed, users scroll through a location-based image feed.
Each post displays the place title, area, image, categories, brief review, and a “+” button to save it.
When saving a post:
They select a list (or create a new one)
The place is saved and tagged with visual markers (e.g. stars for saved, checkmarks for visited)
This interaction flow was designed to feel lightweight but meaningful — encouraging users to build out personalized travel boards with just a few taps.
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