Fake News App
At the NGO ‘Open Knowledge Foundation,’ in Buenos Aires I designed and developed an app that was meant to combat fake news by gamifying the process of deciding whether a story was real or fake. Despite the importance of the topic, I knew O wanted to make the app engaging and entertaining so that people would be draw to use it repeatedly. After trying out several prototypes I settled on a functionality that mimicked tinder, where you swipe right or left on a news story.
Client
Open Knowledge Foundation
Timeline
4 weeks
Role
Product Design: Comparative Research, Prototyping, User Testing, Visual Design
User Flow
Swipe right if its true, left if it’s fake.
On the next screen the user find out if they were right or wrong and the background color reflects this, they did providing positive visual feedback if correct and a negative feedback if wrong, with the emoji adding a second visual key. Users can also check on their stats to see how they are doing as well as share their scores with friends to compare.
Visual Design
The check in the logo is a nod to WhatsApp, where a majority of fake news is shared.
The name “Visto” means seen in Spanish, and is a reference to your message being seen on messaging apps, particularly. The logo was based on this idea using the ‘‘seen’’ checks that show up when your message is seen as the V and both a green and red color to indicate real vs fake news. The other colors are white and black to go along with the idea of news itself. The UI is fun and simple as to reflect the easy to use, playfulness of the app. It’s a game. I used emojis as well to go along with this playful idea, and to go along with this theme of messaging apps and texting.
