Maple & Leek Social Networking Website for Seniors

Maple was an idea developed by team of young professionals to inspire liked minded 50+ people. Idea was to build an online community site with easy to use and aimed at seniors. Since the website was aimed at 50+ age demographics the challenge at hand was to build a website that is intuitive and easy-to-use. X-istech has worked with the client right from Identity Design to delivery of the social networking system for seniors. The client needed the following:

• Needed a Simple High Contrast Website Design aimed at Seniors.
• The Interfaces needed to adhere to strict W3C Compliance for accessibility.
• Simple and functional user dashboard to discover interests, hobbies, communities and friends.
• Discover and connect with like minded people for Social Networking.

X-istech Solution

X-istech built and delivered the application in 12 month framework right from Idea to Implementation. The project involved simple user interfaces along with rich social networking features.

The solution involved the flowing services:

Brand Identity Design, Website Design, Website Development, User Interaction Design, UI / UX Development, PHP Coding

Application Features:

• Easy intuitive navigation to allow visitors to navigate to  their content of interest with ease.
• User interaction flow designed to aid visitors during their interaction journey with clear interaction elements to aid user interactions.
• Member Registration and Dashboard.
• Customizable User Homepages, Personal Profiles & Personal Blogs
• Discussion Forums, Groups and Communities.
• File/Photo/Audio/Video Sharing with Ratings & Comments
• Member Messaging
• Polls /Surveys
• Searchable Member Directory
• Member Administration.
• Content Management (CMS)
• MIS Activity Reporting.
• RSS – Content Syndication

Technology Stack & Compliances:

• Responsive Web Design (RWD)
• W3C / WCAG standard  compliant coding
• UI/UX Tools: HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Jquery and Ajax
• Technology Stack: Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP