YouMap Social Media Map by YouMap and Miquido Team

Iron Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design · 2022

YouMap Social Media Map

by YouMap and Miquido Team

A' Design Award 2022 Iron Winner in Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design
Awarded April 15, 2022
CLIENT: Miquido
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About YouMap Social Media Map

YouMap combines social media and maps. This app enables its users to create a map of important moments in their lives by marking places or events. A map is a geospatial data collection where users may add social posts and import data such as photos. Users can share their maps with others or join already created maps, where they can add new content. They can control how information is shared on the maps by using configurable fields, such as value sliders, star ratings, multi select, and other areas that can all be edited. YouMap is a one of a kind experience for creators and communities.

Press Kit

Unique Properties: Most social networks give a premium to popularity. On YouMap the most important person is the one on the ground with the information you need. A patented visualization system displays information ephemerally to track fast moving events. Thousands of posts can be shown on a city block without any data overcrowding. Built for live reporting, our flexible moderated communities have customized post flows to give YouMap the purpose our users choose.
Dimensions & Packaging: The app is a native app, currently only available on the iOS platform.
Tags: social media, map, social media map, community, templates, posts
Production Technology: We used the following tools: Sketch, InVision, Adobe After Effects, Miro and Zeplin.
Design Challenge: YouMap’s 4 approved patents reflect considerable design challenges. We aimed to bring value from unstructured data locked in the human crowd. Data on most social platforms is unstructured, limiting value. YouMap’s content blocks structure human data like an API would. It was a challenge to display thousands of posts without crowding. This was overcome by gathering cues about a post’s importance and showing more important posts at a higher zoom resulting in a 30,000 foot view of our human world.
Project Duration: The project has been going on in Cracow since 2019.
Operation Flow: Maps are the basic foundational component in YouMap. A map in YouMap is a geospatial data set where social postings are made and where data is imported. Our user onboarding includes a series of interactions that result in a tailored experience facilitating both fun exploration and . As such, a user is able to interact with map creating tools that enable customization based on the user’s needs.
Inspiration: The inspiration behind YouMap was the desire to help others following the Black Lives Matter protest in Baltimore, Maryland. This crisis along with other major global events illustrated the need to address problems with our current social media platforms. Specifically, the inability of social feeds to paint the bigger picture, and better utilize information from the human crowd to share useful insights and information to others.
Image Credits: Image #1: YouMap on multiple screens, Marta Stec, 2022.
Image #2: Floating Buttons, Marta Stec, 2022.
Image #3: My world, Marta Stec, 2022.
Image #4: Place, Marta Stec, 2022.
Image #5: Creating a map, Marta Stec, 2022.
Video credits: Tutorial video - You Map App, Marta Stec, 2021.