FindIt — Campus Lost & Found App UI/UX Design Designed the core flow for FindIt, a mobile app tha...FindIt — Campus Lost & Found App UI/UX Design Designed the core flow for FindIt, a mobile app tha...
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FindIt — Campus Lost & Found App
UI/UX Design
Designed the core flow for FindIt, a mobile app that replaces informal campus lost-and-found systems (WhatsApp groups, security desk logbooks) with a structured reporting and matching flow.
The main design challenge: building trust in an automated match without it feeling like a black box, while preventing false ownership claims.
Key decisions:
Photo-first reporting, since visual matching outperforms text descriptions for lost items
Match confidence broken into transparent criteria (category, location, time) rather than a single opaque score
Ownership details gated until verification, with campus security tied in as the verifying authority
Minimal, quick-entry forms suited to reporting between classes
Scope: home/discovery, report item flow, match verification, security integration.
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Mark's avatar
Gating ownership details until verification is the real trust move here — most lost-and-found flows expose location and time immediately, which is exactly what lets someone fake a claim.
Tanishka's avatar
Exactly!
DC's avatar
Really solid UX thinking here. I like how the matching feels transparent instead of like a black box.
Tanishka's avatar
Thanks a lot!
Mark's avatar
Breaking the match into checked criteria instead of a single score is the trust move here — a percentage tells you nothing about why it thinks it's your item, but "same category, similar location, similar time" lets the user verify the machine's logic themselves before claiming.
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