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Vymble

A mobile planning concept that helps friends choose a mood, react to ideas, and turn a shared choice into a plan.

Role: Solo Product Designer
Year: 2025
Project: Mobile product concept

01Choose a mood

02React to ideas

03Make a plan

The brief

Make the first decision easier

Planning a hangout can start with an open question and end with nobody choosing. Ideas compete with everyday conversation, and one person often has to keep the decision moving. Vymble explores a smaller first step, asking how the group feels before asking exactly what everyone wants to do.

Who it’s for: Friend groups who want spontaneous plans with enough structure to reach a shared decision.
My contribution: I developed the product direction, mapped the group planning loop, and designed the mobile screens, visual language, and prototype.
Focus: Connect mood selection, activity reactions, and a saved plan without making casual planning feel like administration.

Start with your group

Vymble group home showing The Squad, planning actions, and recent adventures.

The group home brings members, recent adventures, and planning actions together, giving friends a shared place to begin.

Set practical limits

Vymble practical constraints screen with transport, budget, location, and time options.

Transport, budget, and staying nearby give the mood a practical context. These choices are designed to narrow which suggestions fit the group.

01Mood preview

Start with how the group feels

Six moods give the conversation a starting point without asking people to browse an open-ended catalogue. The preview below shows the design principle with sample activities. Selecting a mood changes the suggestion and its visual treatment, while the card keeps the same structure so the next decision stays familiar.

Try the mood selector

What’s the vibe?

Pick a mood. See how the same question becomes a more personal starting point.

Interactive concept preview · Sample suggestions

VymbleChill

A little inspiration for your group

Watch a ‘so-bad-it’s-good’ movie together

Grab some snacks and enjoy those pretty bad movies that are somehow good.

A low-effort plan gives the group a starting point without asking anyone to organize a big night.

From the original Vymble concept

02Shared plan

Move from a reaction to a plan

A suggestion needs somewhere to go after it gets a positive response. The planning loop brings reactions and saved plans into the same product, so the group can return to what it agreed on. I kept the activity as the visual focus and used supporting details to help people judge whether the idea fits.

Recorded prototype · 1× speed

A shared suggestion to react toMood Match moves from a mood choice to an activity card. A concrete suggestion gives friends something specific to respond to.

Recorded prototype · 1× speed

One place to return toYour Plans carries the decision forward into a shared reference, reducing the need to find the agreement again inside a conversation.

03Design evolution

Give one idea room to land

The Perfect Matches sketch already centered one activity and a small set of responses. The later design carries that idea into a more expressive card, using color, illustration, and a clearer title hierarchy to make the suggestion feel inviting.

From a movie sketch to a suggestion

Drag the divider to compare sketch and final interface.

Perfect Matches sketchFinal movie suggestion

Final blue Perfect Matches card suggesting a so-bad-it-is-good movie night with group reactions.

Early Perfect Matches sketch proposing a movie night with time and reaction controls.

Both versions ask the group to respond to the same kind of movie-night idea. In the final card, the activity leads, the supporting detail is grouped beneath it, and the social response stays close to the decision.

04More ways in

Return to favorites or try something new

The mood loop is the main path, but a group will not always start from the same place. Favorites let people revisit a known option. Surprise suggestions offer a different entry point when nobody has a preference. Both lead back to the shared activity decision, keeping the product focused on making a plan.

Keep a good idea for later

Vymble Group Favorites screen with saved Board Game Cafe and KBBQ activities.

Saved activities keep familiar options available for the next decision. Tags and locations help the group recognize a good fit.

Let a suggestion break the tie

Recorded prototype · 1× speed

A surprise suggestion gives the group a concrete starting point when nobody has a preference.

05Outcome

A clearer path to deciding together

The result is a mobile concept with a consistent loop from mood to suggestion to plan, supported by favorites and surprise prompts. The design work clarified where the product should help most, turning a broad conversation into a small, shared decision. The screens and recordings demonstrate that intended flow; they do not yet establish whether groups make plans faster or follow through more often.

A useful next study would follow a real group through the full decision, including disagreement, skipped suggestions, and a change of plans. The happy path alone cannot establish how well the social loop works.

I would also check whether the six moods are distinct enough, whether suggested activities feel appropriate, and whether friends understand when a choice has become a shared plan.