This project is dedicated to bring users meet up in real life in an easier and efficient way by utilizing the in-application function. Unlike other dating applications that focus on matching then texting, this project is mainly encouraging the real connection and in-person feeling with one and another. Not only meeting one, but meeting in a group of people brings different experience and chemistry among each other through this propose application. On the other hand, It also dedicated to resolve one of the problem in most of the swipe-to-match dating application, which is the cognitive or memory overloading of user’s brain while swiping away the other users in the application. This project is carried out successfully where all of the objectives are achieved by using Agile methodology – Extreme Programming (XP). Two types of users – Normal and Business user can interact with each other under the same roof. A detail system methodology, design and diagram are provided in the Chapter 3 and 4.
This project was initialized in Jan 2021 for part one and proceeded in May 2022 for part two.
An overview for this application, user can now host meet up and join any meet up hosted by other users. They can also use it as social application to add friend and chat with them. Editing their profile to enhance their online personal presence is also doable in this application. Business user can enhance their profile presence in this application and facilitate their operation through the booking function. It solves the cognitive load problem since there is no swiping feature and users can always look back their joined and hosted meet up history.
7.2 Recommendation
Since this project is carried out by Agile methodology, there is always improvement and enhancement can be done in the next incremental. There are some recommendations for the next increment version. For example, the user cannot delete any record now in the application, this can be improved by adding a delete function for meet up history, chat record, and notification record. Another recommendation is to add a comment section under the meet up page where users interact with each other to decide whether joining the meet up or not. From technical viewpoint, it is suggested to implement alternative authentication methods such as Google and Facebook
authentication. In the future version, it is suggested that only those users who have attended a meet up together will have the privilege to rate and review each other. It is suggested to provide safety guidelines to the host and joiners for the meet up.
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