Abstract
Helping professionals forge and maintain relationships in real life.
About the project
The problem
Founders, CEOs, and other busy professionals have little time and opportunity to meet others with similar experiences and challenges. How might we help connect them to others with similar needs while helping them discuss and surmount those challenges while offering in-person connections?
The solution
Small, in-person dinners centered around a specific challenge, hosted by individuals uniquely positioned to propose solutions.
Challenges & opportunities
As a startup, the first concern was to educate invitees about Voray and the value it creates. The dinners are a draw in and of themselves, but we’d need anchor attendees to draw in others, and make sure the hosts were interested in the attendees as well.
Event cards would highlight the topic as well as the host, surfacing key guests in order to encourage others to attend.
Event discovery.
The main events page showcases each event with a card that lets users see the host, guests, and topic at a glance.
Contextual buttons let users respond to invites, update their RSVP, or add themselves to waitlists for events they are interested in attending.
Ribbons indicate a user’s role as it pertains to an event, whether they’re an invited guest, attending an event, on a waitlist, or have declined an invite.
Invitations.
As an invitee, users see a page that prominently displays a description of the event, general details, and a list of attendees.
Post-acceptance, the invite page splits into tabs, so that the most pertinent information can be shown. Prior to the event, additional information about the event, including the schedule and more information about the venue are displayed.
After the event, the page defaults to the guestlist so that users can follow up with fellow attendees through the platform.
Continuing the conversation.
After an event, the platform offers a chat service to continue conversations and make connections without feeling the pressure of sharing personal information.
Users are connected only to people they have first met in person, thereby increasing the signal to noise ratio over other networking platforms.
