Happen — Designing and building a service for people to make plans for the future

Inspired by our collective frustration with current social media's focus on making our backlogs public, we created a tool for people to make plans for the future with all interactions between users kept private.

Happen is a simple planning platform where users can keep a list of things they want to do and friends can ambiently express their interest by swiping “me too.” We expect further communication to take place outside the app and are interested in the simplicity of its humble feature set, and its potential to encourage offline communication and activity.

The team built mobile applications for both iOS and Android, and even began using the service over the course of the project. As the product lead, I designed and developed the iOS version of Happen.
 

At the end of the course, our team presented Happen at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Senior Design Expo, where all seniors exhibit their projects to a panel of industry judges and the Viterbi community. 28 projects were evaluated, and our team was awarded 1st place.