Corridor App
UX Design • Won ‘Most Interesting CONCEPT’ in Adobe Creative Jam Vol. 2
Adobe has teamed up with General Assembly Singapore to bring together designers and innovators to work on a design challenge.
The challenge
Develop an app prototype to help create thriving city neighbourhoods.
Our team of 3 took part in the competition and was awarded “Most Interesting Concept” at the end of the day for our favour based app. While it was a project that allowed a lot of room for fun and creative idea, we also wanted to ensure that the concept would be as realistic, implementable, and original as possible.
What makes a neighbourhood?
We spoke to other people to find out what neighbourhood meant, how people were currently connecting to their neighbours (if at all), their expectations and their ideal neighbourhood. We also researched and discussed how neighbourhoods had evolved over the past few years.
We kept the problem statement open so that we could have more room for fun ideas. We challenged ourselves to avoid ideas that were a digital mimic of something analogous (eg. apps that mimic bulletin boards) or grossly overdone event apps that already existed in the marketplace.
Problem
People don’t know how to begin to get to know their neighbours. Without community connections, there is a lower sense of belonging, ownership, and understanding for each other.
Enter Corridor
Corridor is a stepping stone for neighbours to connect with each other by allowing users to offer and receive help from their neighbours based on their hidden talents, hobbies, and offerings.
Imagine this: Jerry needs egg cartons for his daughter’s art project that’s coming in 2 weeks time. He posts a request on Corridor to notify his neighbours. In the following days, a bunch of neighbours drop by his place to pass him egg cartons.
Pamela is an avid baker in the neighbourhood but always struggles to find people to give her bakes away too. She posts an alert on Corridor inviting neighbours to grab some of her piping hot blueberry muffins.
Jerry stops by to pick up some muffins and finds out that Pamela has a golden retriever as well. They organise to walk their dogs together with their new-found neighbours the following Saturday.
Upon completion of favours, neighbours can leave each other testimonials to lend credibility to each other and boost the reputation of helpful neighbours.
This is Jerry!
Jerry needs egg cartons for his daughter’s art project. He uses Corridor to request help from his neighbours!
Pamela sees his requests and responds to it via the app.
Jerry checks out Pamela’s profile and finds out they both like arts & craft. They have a chat over their kids projects when they meet.
What is Corridor trying to acheive?
digital → physical → the start of something more
By giving neighbours a convenient platform to offer and receive help from each other, it creates opportunities for face-to-face interactions and sparks the beginning of meaningful relationships. The development of such relationships strengthens community connections, allows social cohesion and greater inclusivity among the community.
Explore the working prototype here.
Edit 2022: Explore the updated prototype here.