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ENLIGME: CRAIGSLIST APP

xingyu zhong
Nov 12, 2017
2 min read

Following the ideas about Craigslist app design, I think about the name of the app again. Since I positioned the app to be an fun explorer, it helps users find interesting things, I think it also enlightens people with things they didn't know in a way. Therefore, I think Enligme would be a good name, which is a combination of "enlighten" and "me". "Me" also represents the customizing idea of the app, like this is an app will show different contents based on its user's interests.

The name itself lets me think of a bulb immediately. So my logo design was some concepts around bulbs and combined with the letter "M" and "E". Here are some sketches of the logo.

Then I made 4 different logos digitally, which are the app icon style.

As you can see the first two look like a bulb clearly and have the letter "M" or "M" and "E" in them. The last two might not look like a bulb but just the combination of letter "E" and "M". However they were changed from a bulb icon or light tube icon below. I just took the uper part of it to make the last two.

And I took the second logo to make the app prototype. This design is a more general one which is easiest for every user to understand the functions of every buttom in it. I used yellow, grey and white as the main colors because of the logo color, also because I want the app's interface would be clear, simple and refreshing. And the main typeface I used in the app is Arial Rounded MT Bold. For some long texts, I used Arial. As the screens, there are 3 main screens in the app, "Home", "Explore" and "Account", which are always showed in the menu at the bottom of the screen.

I made 21 screens for the prototype in InVision. But since I am using the free vision, InVision doesn't allow me to create more prototypes. I will have to make rooms for my final prototype. So, I will just upload the screens as jpg here.