‘Hey Chat’ are looking to bring a designer on board to design some first look designs for their brand new chat & messenger app releasing soon. The deliverables required will be used for a press release and to raise some hype over social media, so they’re looking for a main landing page layout as well as a dashboard view showing a users chat box and recommended groups to explore.

What makes their app different is that it will combine both traditional messaging with suggested interest groups based on what a users discussions are about. They’re hoping the app will become the next big thing and are looking for a designer to push the boundaries in terms of modern aesthetic app design, whilst ensuring the UI is simple and easy to interact with.

In these early stages of the product development the exact content that would be displayed on the landing page and dashboard view isn’t yet certain. Hey Chat are hoping a designer can take initiative on this brief, including the content they feel would suit and at the same time, expand on the provided logo to begin the process of exploring how Hey Chat’s digital presence and styling can come together.

As mentioned in the brief, Hey Chat did not provide any branding information. Because of this, I felt the necessity to first create a 'branding style-sheet' for them so I could have a clear idea of what colours would be used for the different elements and also to gauge an idea of the different font sizes and icon styles I could use. I decided to do this so I could ensure the app had a continuity running through each page making the designs look sleek and clean.

I then moved onto the design of the 'Header' and 'Footer' for this app. I wanted the shape to be unique while still maintaining the identity of the company and the consistency of the colours. I decided on the shape of a generic 'speech bubble' however, I warped the shape to incorporate the curves of the logo.