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Perspectives
Role: UX Researcher, Product Designer
Tools: Figma
Year: 2026
Designing an anonymous, human-first perspective-sharing platform built around place, topic, and daily ritual.
Perspectives is a mobile platform for anonymous human perspective-sharing — short, real takes on career, dating, city life, money, and more, with no AI-generated content. Its two defining features are location-based filtering and a daily widget that surfaces one perspective from followed topics each day. The hypothesis: the most useful outside perspective isn’t a generated one. It’s a real one, from someone who has been where you are.
Problem
When people are stuck, they want a real human point of view, not a framework or a chatbot. Social media rewards loud opinions over honest ones, pseudonymous forums push toward performative confidence, and journaling apps just reflect users on themselves. The product question: what would a platform look like that surfaces genuine, anonymous, location-aware human perspectives, organized around the topics people actually need it on?
Research
Mesh unifies P2P payment platforms under a single decentralized interface, one identity, one balance view, one place to send and receive from anyone, regardless of their home platform.
01
16 discovery interviews (45–60 min) with adults 22–35 actively navigating a meaningful life question
02
171 diary entries from a 2-week diary study with 10 of the interview participants
03
13 competitor platforms audited across 3 categories: anonymous opinion apps, location-aware platforms, and curated daily content
04
28-question survey, n=210, across 14 cities, pressure-testing qualitative findings at scale
Key Findings
Mesh unifies P2P payment platforms under a single decentralized interface, one identity, one balance view, one place to send and receive from anyone, regardless of their home platform.
79%
would share a perspective anonymously they wouldn’t share under their name
68%
said location context makes a perspective feel more relevant
61%
have a daily piece of content they return to for perspective
n=20
Hidden fee range per instant transfer
01
Anonymity unlocks honesty, but needs structure to feel safe; a location tag acts as a lightweight credential, implying lived context without revealing identity.
02
Location is a relevance signal, not a privacy threat; people wanted city-level context (“they know what rent looks like here”), not GPS precision.
03
The daily ritual already exists, 61% of diary participants had one, just scattered across newsletters, accounts, and group chats with no dedicated home.
04
Topic categories function as identity signals, not just filters. Choosing a topic deck felt like self-selecting into a community, not configuring an app.
05
Volume is the enemy of quality on anonymous platforms. The competitive audit showed that once volume scales on unstructured platforms, the lowest-effort content wins.
From research to design
Mesh unifies P2P payment platforms under a single decentralized interface, one identity, one balance view, one place to send and receive from anyone, regardless of their home platform.
01
Anonymous posting with optional city-level tags, a trust signal, not a tracking mechanism.
02
Topic decks as the core organizing unit, named with personality (“Situationship deck,” “NYC life”) rather than generic labels.
03
A daily home/lock-screen widget surfacing one perspective from followed topics, the primary retention mechanism.
04
Structured response cards (“I’ve been there,” “Hard truth”) instead of open comments, to protect quality and reduce harassment surface area.
05
No visible engagement metrics for posters, removing performance anxiety that diary data linked to less honest posting.
Validation
Tested a mid-fidelity Figma prototype with 10 participants across two rounds. SUS score improved from 71 to 84 (“Good” range) after iterating on anonymity confirmation, city-filter placement, and a widget preview step, which raised widget setup completion from 67% to 100%.
Outcomes
Mesh unifies P2P payment platforms under a single decentralized interface, one identity, one balance view, one place to send and receive from anyone, regardless of their home platform.
84
SUS score, “Good” on the standard usability scale
9/10
task completion across all three primary flows (Round 2)
7/10
called the anonymity model “trustworthier than expected”
94%
unmoderated Maze completion rate on posting flow (n=28)
Unprompted, 8 of 10 testing participants said a platform like this would replace something they currently do across multiple apps — evidence that the fragmented daily perspective ritual is a genuine unmet need.
What I'd do differently
Mesh unifies P2P payment platforms under a single decentralized interface, one identity, one balance view, one place to send and receive from anyone, regardless of their home platform.
01
Test the widget earlier; it was a late addition and surfaced usability issues that a paper prototype would have caught more cheaply.
02
Recruit beyond major cities, the sample skewed urban and 24–32; the “local perspective” gap may be even more acute elsewhere.
03
Run a longitudinal study on the daily ritual, since the widget’s value rests on sustained habit, not just setup.
Closing
Mesh unifies P2P payment platforms under a single decentralized interface, one identity, one balance view, one place to send and receive from anyone, regardless of their home platform.
People are extraordinarily willing to share honest perspectives, but they just won’t do it under their name where honesty gets punished. Perspectives bets that anonymity plus structure plus location context produces something different: a platform where honesty is the default because the design earns it.
Available to walk through research artifacts, synthesis maps, and the prototype in detail.
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