Podcast Communities
As a participant at ITU Airlab’s UX/UI Jam 2024, we were tasked with picking random cards of what we had to build and combine. I picked podcast and social media and tasked myself to create an opportunity for listeners to make clips of their favorite moments of podcast episodes to support creating online communities within the podcast app itself. Every participant picked designed their apps and we all presented our designs and thoughts in the end of the session
The Concept
My idea of combining podcasts and social media features, revolved around creating strong community groups. Listening to podcasts is for most users a way to relax and remove yourself from otherwise social situations like commuting or going to the gym. However, I thought there could be potential for users wanting to connect over certain elements or sections from the individual episodes.
Taking heavy experience from Twitch and Youtube, I combined what elements from these platforms that create community feeling.
With my design, users can highlight bits from podcast episodes and add their own comments to these. Other users will then be able to further interact with these comments/bits.
