Savvy Reimagines Online Interaction

Team Savvy
3 min readAug 12, 2020
Author: Hannah Shin

Technology has made it so much easier for us to communicate with people- but this increased frequency of communication hasn’t enhanced the quality of our conversations. While friends and potential love interests are only a text or DM away, social media and dating profiles often create an incomplete picture of who a person is.

Curated online profiles can also make weighing potential matches feel like reading product reviews on Amazon. Spoiler alert: things that work well for other people on the internet don’t always translate to sparks when you meet face-to-face.

With Savvy, instead of reading through pre-written facts, figures, and one-liners, all meant to make matches look good, users get to see how matches react to questions in real time. Savvy challenges users to display their creativity by giving matches just 30 seconds to craft a response.

Savvy brings digital dating into the now.

College students these days are busier than ever. Dating apps partly solve this problem by stretching out the time frame of an interaction. Users engage on their time and their terms. However, this has taken away the real-time factors which contribute to chemistry and connection.

One problem with digital dating is that it enables large amounts of lag-time between each…

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