Industries

Social platform development for close-knit communities

Social networks have given the world an unprecedented connectivity, which lead to an amplified information exchange speed and volume, and helped people formulate communities based on different interests, identities, and causes. We see our purpose in the boutique social platforms design and development as we are able to get to the core of each community and serve its specific needs.

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A granular approach to community platform design

Like any other digital product, a social network or community application production relies on a multi-stage process involving the customer every step of the way to ensure a perfect market fit, timely value, and demographic relevance.

Local Community Networks

Platforms designed to connect people within specific neighborhoods or towns, facilitating local discussions, events, and classifieds.

UI/UX Design

Community Engagement Strategies

Interest-Based Communities

Platforms where users with specific hobbies, interests, or passions gather to share knowledge, tips, and experiences.

Brand Identity Design

Content Creation

Niche Professional Networks

Platforms catering to professionals in specific industries or fields, offering networking opportunities, job postings, and industry-specific discussions.

User Research and Persona Development

Platform Redesign and Optimization

Special Interest Groups

Platforms that bring together individuals with unique interests or causes, fostering discussions, activism, and collaboration around shared goals.

Custom Community Platform Design

Custom Community Platform Development

Hobby and Creative Communities

Platforms where artists, creators, and enthusiasts of various crafts share their work, collaborate on projects, and provide feedback.

Portfolio and Project Showcase Design

Visual Content Strategy

Educational and Learning Communities

Platforms focused on facilitating discussions, sharing resources, and supporting learning among students, educators, and enthusiasts of specific subjects or disciplines.

Learning Platform Design

Course Material Design

Maintaining user acquisition, ensuring monetization, and driving engagement on digital community platforms

As a service design and development agency, we undertake a diverse range of projects. The greatest part about it is the ability to mix and match solutions for problems of different industries. Social platforms reflect the goals and aspirations of society on general.

Our team’s fascination with the new and different allows us to bring fresh thinking into the social platform industry that runs on emotion and engagement.

Functional social networks

While most early social networks were designed to be general platforms for people of diverse backgrounds to connect and formulate communities, the next step the industry took was the creation of professional or purposeful social platforms. In a way, this implied more granular design decisions as some functionality had to be extended while other ignored. A good example of a functional social platform that was created on the intersection of art education and and community is CGMA. It features social mechanics that are limited by the subject that the users are consolidated by.

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Local platforms designed for communal safety

Along with the purpose of bringing people together and giving them the benefits of shared information, social platforms may serve a bigger purpose. There are religious, traditional, closed communities in real life that seek the level of digital connectivity that social networks give. It is our purpose to provide them with the experience they seek while making sure there is a definitive level of security and cultural appropriation.

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Multipurpose social experience in a mobile app

The modern entertainment industry mandatorily engages spectators since the numbers of views and interactions are the main currency affecting the algorithms that help content be discovered. If you mix several mechanics of user engagement, you get an ultimate fan-creator interaction platform with limitless potential.

This is the story of the Veké app which was a one-of-the-kind attempt to unify the three popular formats of influencer interaction with fans within one app. We have designed several interesting contraptions like chat reaction boost monetization, creator presence indication, time-bound message pinning, and many more. We believe the Veké platform has arrived ahead of its time allowing us to experiment with different formats before settling on the final functionality.

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Specialized social platforms for industry professionals

In our industry more often than not, clients are taking on the roll of product architects while the design and development teams are servicing their vision.

However, when it comes to a fundamental redesign or solving the problems beyond cosmetic, there is no way to do without a deep-level engagement and building of an expertise.

Our process facilitates this type of engagement and allows us to focus our best minds on solving problems on the deeper levels and involving UX heuristics as well as the industry-specific insights.

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Social platforms have given everybody a voice. It’s our job to make those voices heard

Regardless of which aspect of life brings you into a digital community, you deserve the same treatment across every platform.

The following is going to be a set of three social platform design cases, all coming from different industries, purposes, and design approaches but same quality and depth of research.

Professional-amateur sports platform

Abu-Dhabi Jiu Jitsu Pro (AJP) Tour, the second largest pro-am Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu sports organization in the world has approached us after we’ve completed a concept design for them. Jiu jitsu is a sport that doesn’t have a clear border between professional and amateur athletes. The competitions are open for everyone and it’s the ultimate purity of the sport that allows the best to stand out. In design, we tried to build an experience that would help amateur practitioners be the part of the big league along with the pros.

Professional-amateur sports platform

Phygital memorabilia collector social platform

Physical collectibles have been revolutinized by the blockchain technology and the usage of NFC which have eradicated fraud and brought physical objects into the digital Web3 space. Blockchain essentially is a social network where all the participants of a transaction are discoverable. The only thing that sets it apart is anonymity. Culture Pulse has come up with an idea of unifying the physical memorabilia ecosystem and a social platform for collectors with multiple activities.

Phygital memorabilia collector social platform

Professional service network based on social proof and healthy competition

A lot of modern-day B2C platforms already feature social interactions as part of their CX. Businesses try to be as approachable and responsive as possible by fostering their presence in their customer’s communities. YourLead is an example of such model. It’s an American home renovation pros and tradesmen platform allowing them to compete for the jobs that come directly from the customers. A platform facilitates a safe and respectful interaction but does not hide a customer from a business. Instead, we have designed the platform to be a friendly reliable tool based on human interaction and not algorithms.

Professional service network

Why choose us as your Social platfroms partner?

150+

team members

500+

completed projects

17 years

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Full-cycle development

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Your project’s success is our goal and the biggest achievement. That’s why we pour our hearts and souls into the products. All our partners who left a Clutch review are willing to recommend Shakuro’s services to their friends and colleagues.

Modern social platform design & development

With extensive research capabilities and a deep understanding of your needs, our expertise in app development for education sets us apart from other companies. We dive into the market to discover potential target audiences, beneficial product placement, comprehensive branding strategies, easy-to-grasp user flows, etc. Piece by piece, our team builds a one-of-a-kind solution for your business goals and the goals of potential users.