The ultimate guide for those seeking to live in small cities around the world.

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Briefing

Assume you are living in 2050, 72% world's population lives in urban areas. Projections show that urbanization combined with the overall growth of the population could add another 0.5 billion people to urban populations within the next 2 years.

Challenge

Worldwide, most countries want people to migrate to small cities. Think of an application to facilitate their move. The ones using your solution will be citizens of large cities, they are looking for a new place and have a variety of needs: school for children, a quiet place for online meetings, a new job in the same or different industry field, and between other needs.

Design Process

  1. Understanding similar apps
  2. Create an architecture for navigation
  3. Design and Prototype
  4. Document and Share

Understanding similar apps

This step of the process it was realized for finding some similar apps that already has features for this public developed and ruining at market.

In my research, I focused on collect how is the user journey is these apps, and what features are provided in these apps. This list is composed for two apps:

  1. NomadList : Best Places to Live for Digital Nomads
  2. Cost of Living: Explore the community-powered cost of living insights