What would social media look like if it supported your definition of content creation?

A Social Media App Design by Susan Thomas, 17, that supports her definition of content creation: Content creation is about showing who you are, most of the time in a positive light.

The mockup

Based on the rough sketch above.

What makes this app different?

Just compare you to you

You have the option to hide other people’s followers and likes so you don't see them.

Set your content consuming intentions from the get-go

Choose which kind of content you would like, for example poetry, as soon as you open up your social media app.

Explore topic-specific content through folders

Access specific types of content through different folders of your interests, for example music or photography or pictures of your friends, on your profile

Automatically see which content does best

When you first open your app, the content you created is organised from most to least popular so you can see what you do well or bad.

Get content creator matches

You're matched to other content creators to share tips on what you’ve learnt on that app or how to improve your content.

Automatically avoid your triggers

You can self-censor specific language or trigger words which disturbs or affects you.

Block users before seeing their content

Have the option to automatically block specific users, before having to open up a message.

Susan Thomas, 17

17, Female Empowerment & Social Media Activism.

Susan's bio as written by her fellow LOG OFF member Fabiana, 17.

What if you could go back to 2008, where content creation did not exist in the same sense of today, how do you think life would be different?

I live quite a far away from my friends, so at first it would be lonely, but then I think I would think bigger and start talking to people a bit more. I would be more spread around in real life. It would be quite different, but the same time it won't change that much.

Fabiana's thoughts on Susan's app

“I really like the idea of being able to hide someone else's likes and followers. Although I do feel, when an account is bigger than yours you know it - you've heard of them etc. and we often try and strive to, but not being able to see their likes and follows will definetely help with the pressure.” - Fabiana, 17

The Design Challenge was done on a Zoom call between the LOG OFF members, Susan and Fabiana (GenZ designers), and Iske (a non-GenZ facilitator and mockup designer).