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Project
Messenger App
This small personal project was an exercise in the visual design of messenger apps. Not having built one before, I wanted to acquaint myself with the leading platforms, and standard UI practices. I focused on designing an iOS native app.
Date: 2020
UI Design
Competitive Analysis
Even with the smallest projects, I conduct some kind of competitive analysis. For this I analyzed the user experience of three popular apps on the market. Apple Messenger, Facebook messenger, and WhatsApp. Below are screen grabs of each app's chat page. I mark up similarities, differences and make notes of what is working or not for the service.
![Apple Messenger](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/1d9307c5-9089-42d1-94f1-87690987551d/05b4f5e9-bae5-4dac-8ef2-da00041c7dfc_rw_1920.png?h=06ddc9e6d7f3c6460c325f5ae61dff1f)
Apple Messenger
![Facebook Messenger](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/1d9307c5-9089-42d1-94f1-87690987551d/66db41fe-a306-406b-b441-1fe9008a96e2_rw_1920.png?h=f8d759244a3df2a41023bc5b7b15ad8c)
Facebook Messenger
![WhatsApp](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/1d9307c5-9089-42d1-94f1-87690987551d/24f05cbb-8698-4381-9441-82a9a420971d_rw_1920.png?h=3ae4cb44eed5e8f6b29ee323d05b8ef5)
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