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>they want to pick up the phone, tell what they want and have it organized.

Only because nothing better has come along. I know plenty of people who basically refuse to make phone calls. Cant order online, they will go to a different restaurant.

>Organizing or even putting your wishes into some forms

Exactly why it needs to be swipes.

Open the App

Invite Friends

Swipe Destinations

Click on destinations to swipe activities. Restaurants. Pretty pictures.

If its more complex than Tinder or TikTok or Pinterest youre right it wont be FUN to use. The whole point is that the act of planning itself should be pleasurable.

People love endless feeds of pretty pictures.

The fact that peoples responses are forms and spreadsheets tells me I havent explained myself well.

It doesnt need to be travel only. I use Yelp and Uber at home, and away from home.



I don't know what is about swipes but those are underused I agree. Does Tinder have some kind of patent on swiping decisions?

What you describe here is in my opinion more interesting. Because that would be more like choosing which "all inclusive" most of people want. If typing is cut to minimum and as you mention there are mostly pretty pictures that one has to swipe left or right it might work.


Not only are swipes underused to build consensus, I dont even believe Tinder is the best example. Baby name apps are. A couple download an app, join a meeting room and swipe. Common names appear on a list.

Now imagine that a restaurant picker could determine whether you never want mexican or dont want mexican today.

Swipes are too often thought of as a binary left/right, when really they are more of a radial menu. Swipe left-up could mean not this time. Swipe left-down means never. Swipe straight up to signify something as to come back to. Swiping is easily 4 to 6 to 8 different outputs of vote. The screen should represent a different color for each one until you let go, so you know which option you are releasing on. Things like Maya have had radial menus forever. If you built true swiping radial menus, you can even have a second later of options once the first has been hovered over for a while.


I would not go into radial menu unless it is some kind of specialist app. I would cut it down to left/right up/down - yes tinder is quite binary and does not have "maybe" as an option.

Still you have to build database of choices which will cost quite some money.

Tinder has this upside that their database of choices is building on its own.


Technically tinder is already more than binary, as upswipe is a different form of positive swipe than right swipe. It works there. Theres really no reason that throwing a picture to one of the four corners cant work.




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