Kids Play Date — UX/UI Case Study

Kids Play Date — a neighborhood-first social app that turns the messy logistics of childhood friendships into a calendar
Platform
iOS / Android app
My role
End-to-end UX/UI
Focus
Trust, discovery, scheduling

The challenge

Finding friends shouldn't be this hard

Urban parents — especially single-parent or newly-moved families — struggle to find playmates for their kids. The tools they have today are noisy WhatsApp groups, scattered Facebook posts, and chance encounters at the playground.

None of them answer the real question: who lives nearby, shares my child's interests, and is free this week?

The solution

Four features, one calendar

  • Map discovery — find families nearby, with full control over radius and privacy.
  • Parent & child profiles — shared interests surface the right matches automatically.
  • Scheduling — an integrated calendar turns "we should meet up sometime" into an actual date and time.
  • Parent-to-parent chat — safe, transparent communication between grown-ups.

Design decisions

Warmth you can feel

  • A soft, warm palette sets the emotional tone — trust matters here because children do.
  • The map sits at the center of navigation, because discovery is the product.
  • Chat is intentionally understated — a means to a real-world meetup, not a destination of its own.

Walkthrough

From discovery to a planned playdate

Kids Play Date best match
Best match
Kids Play Date events
Events
Kids Play Date profile
Profile
Kids Play Date onboarding
Onboarding

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Kids Play Date · UX/UI case study — Nadia Chebishev Halevy