Real connections based on who you truly are

As Vera Chief of Design and co-founder, I am the main person responsible for Veras’s user interface and visual branding.

Vera is disrupting the dating industry by connecting like-minded people at scale. We use science-based psychometric tests and artificial intelligence to determine compatibility, helping our members initiate and develop meaningful relationships.

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Objective
We are a dating site. But it is not really a dating site, as we also are open for friendship and general conversations and small group audio rooms. We match people not based on looks, as we blur pictures. Instead we use psychometric tests all users have to do. We have an IQ test and 16 personality test, love style and many more.

Role and responsibilities
As Vera Chief of Design and co-founder, I am the main person responsible for Veras’s user interface and visual branding.

About 15h/week

Total time spent on project: 400 hours

Process

I started this project based of some Adobe XD screen designs:

Competitor analysis

Which are our biggest competitors that are similar to us?

Personality, tone of voice

Friendly and personal (direct communication of team to users)

    • Video communication of founders
    • Emails signed by founders
    • Emails send by founder, never by no-reply

– Not corporate
– Not overly funny
– Scientific but not dry

Our brand is:
– Feminine
– Personal and approachable
– Scientific

We’re passionate about self-discovery and helping our awesome members find each other on our platform!

Problem Statement

What people complain most about dating apps:

Men

Impossible to get matched

Women

Too many players, who only want hook ups
Incompatible or low quality matches

Main pain points

There is certainly more than one pain point we are addressing:

Little privacy, anybody can find their profile

Privacy by having the picture not shown

Privacy by having incognito option, so that they select first before they are shown

Better matches/quantity over quality

Dating takes too much time, we present them with pre-selected matches

Bad quality matches, by having better matches

No matches (guys)

Not getting matches for average guys, by having less focus on locks and more focus on other characteristics

Only hookups

Not only meeting players, by restricting players and pushing good gentlemen

UI design