I designed an app that measures the occupancy of restaurants, supermarkets, offices, buses and all the points-of-interest in between.
The coronavirus quarantine inspired me to revisit one of my first app projects from a decade ago. That app, Pourcast, was designed to alleviate the problem of showing up to your favorite coffee shop with no place to sit. It showed all the coffee shops in your vicinity and indicated their business. (Kinda, there were problems accessing appropriate data at the time.)
Like Pourcast, Crowd Control indicates the density of your favorite haunts so that you knew if it was safe to go. The Pourcast range was expanded to almost everywhere: offices, parks, supermarkets (why is that line at Trader Joe’s always soooo long?!), buses, restaurants, airports, and more. Through many rounds of research and iteration, we arrived with a result that is simple, gorgeous, app that surfaces up current and historical location density.
