A dating app to help users vet potential dates, and to expose dangerous and abusive daters to keep fellow daters safe.
How can we improve today’s love story?
With modern dating apps, it’s easy for someone to hide behind the screen and lie, catfish, bully, threaten, harass, and intimidate others. The same person can also be extremely dangerous if met in person.
The Safe Date app is a tool to help daters vet potential dates to ensure their own safety. It’s also meant as a dating community that helps keep members safe by sharing red flags.
The concept was conceived from personal experience, the many stories of my peers, and alarming news stories and how to make modern dating safer.
Interview Insights
Daters used multiple dating apps/sites. (2-8)
Among heterosexual daters, female daters had many more problems than male daters.
Almost all daters vet potential partners using a variety of tools, e.g. Facebook, Instagram, Google searches, reverse phone lookups, reverse photo searches.
Red flags mentioned included:
No online presence
Old or fake photos
Threatening messages
No phone call before date
Strange/Creepy “vibes”
Inappropriate photos
Tempers
Stalking
Dishonesty
Prior records
Harassment
Scams
Overt/unwanted sexual overtones
Aggression
Abusive language
Most daters felt nothing they had experienced was bad enough to go to the police for.
Personas
Hypothesis
We believe by creating tool such as Safe Date we can provide two things:
A safe place for daters to alert fellow daters and keep each other safe
A tool to vet Potential dates
Competitive Analysis
User Flow
Site Map
Prototyping Progression // Low Fi - High Fi
High Fidelity Prototype Screens
Next Steps
More User Interviews
User Testing
Sort out Vindication (based on user interviews)
Sort out Legal Requirements
Add external background checks (at a cost?)
Aggregating Data from multiple external sites such as Facebook, Instagram, etc.