Dethinking Social Media: Mobile app design to promote warm, active interaction and social connectedness
Lord Sebastian Werenskiold Proctor
Through academic reading, surveys, semi-structured interviews, and netnography, a look at digital social interactions has conclude that challenging the mainstream social media products is a worthy effort for the social and mental health of its users, and that the experience should center chatting, and making plans to meet in person. The result of a following exploration is days, a social planning app. The app centers the act of making plans with the people you already have in your life. The app aims to lower the bar for physical social interaction and reduce the phone to a tool for social wellbeing rather
than a joint hub for entertainment and communication.