The theater experience we used love back in the day is slowly degrading. With the rise of Streaming services and lack of showtime for films in theaters made us to watch films at our home, without going out. Well we can't do anything about streaming services but we can bring back the fun experience of going to theaters. A Community for the theaters, a social media platform combined with a ticket booking app for cinema. It's just a normal ticket booking app but with a Community feature, where you can engage with fellow members and share your stories. A Chat feature, where you'll have the option to join the group of audience members that you gonna watch the film with or create a group with your friends and arrange group watch in theaters.

Let's dive in to the process of designing this app.

First comes the wireframes, mostly of them are sketches. After brainstorming and researching about user-flow, I sketched each screen to make it more sense to myself. Then I can find flows before designing high fidelity designs.

Example user flow: Booking a film and chat groups User →   Map view → Click on a film hall → Film hall info & showing films → Click on a film → Check availability and click on desired time slot to book tickets → Select seats to book → Checkout process → Redirected to chat group once the payment is completed

Let's dive into the high-fidelity designs of the app. Each ones are grouped together to clearly explain the function of each screen.

These are the screens that are shown when a user books ticket to watch a movie. First it's a map view, where users can see the cinema theaters surrounding his/her location. Once clicked on a theater, user can see the movies currently showing in the specific theater. After choosing a desired movie users are able to see the availability of seats in each showtime. Then users can proceed to book tickets and make their payments as usual.

Once the payments are confirmed, users will be automatically added to a chat group related to the showtime of the selected movie. The members of this group are the other audience members that booked to watch the movie. They can chat and make arrangements and engage with each other prior to and after the movie. It's a nice way of building community within the audience members. There is a reminder as well to notify users the time until the movie.  Once movie is aired the chat will be automatically moved to "Your Groups" category. Users are also able to make groups with other users that follow each other. This will enable them to arrange future plans to watch movies.

Community tab is where the normal conversations happen. This is like Twitter/X feed. Users can post text/image/video and also engage with other posts by liking or commenting. User tab shows the profile of the user. Each user has a profile and will contain watched movies, name and bio and link to Letterboxd profile (optional) where users can rate watched movies.

In order to maximize the engagement, a streak system can be implemented based on how many movies watched in a given period. Gamification of watching movies in theater can influence the attendance of people to watch movies in film halls. Furthermore it's possible to give discounts to tickets or special prizes for perks to gain more attraction. If you need a mobile app designed like this, reach out here or email me. Also my Twitter/X