One feature, end to end

Dine Around

One evening, several members’ homes, every table a fresh room. Here is the whole feature, end to end - the console that builds the tables and the app where each member finds their seat. Every frame is the real product.

Scene i - The Console

The console seats the room.

The office adds the homes and sets each table’s seats. Seat everyone seats every household that replied Going in one pass, and it remembers past years: members who already dined together go to different tables, so everyone meets new people. Pick any guest and every table is ranked for them, with the drive and the reasons. Move anyone by hand, then publish.

Last year’s tables are remembered - this year, everyone meets new people.

The Dine Around Tables room: the evening's numbers and map, the pairings that need a look, the guests beside every table, and each seat's drive and fit

published tables · everyone seated · a drive and a fit on every seat

Scene ii - The App

Their table, in their pocket.

When the tables are published, each member gets a notice and opens the event to their own evening: the table drawn from above with every couple in their place, the hosts, the address and the drive. A guest reads why this table, in plain sentences. A host sees who is coming, their dietary needs and the address the guests see.

“Every household at your table is new to you” · “Close to home”

iHouseholds stay whole - couples seated together, always
iiDrafts stay backstage; members only ever see a finished room
iiiThe office can keep the guest list to the hosts - guests meet their table on the night

The host's Dine Around page: their table drawn from above with every household in its place, the night's time and seats, and the guests coming to dinner — the host’s evening - every household in its place

Every feature ships like this.

From the console to the member’s phone, filmed from the real product - see the other four workflows on the front page.