Ecodia
Adventure.
Sign the waiver at the trailhead and put your name on a trip that leaves Saturday. The app for grassroots adventure crews.
The challenge
Grassroots adventure crews run real trips on goodwill and group chats. Two things get lost in that: the liability of a led trip with a real leader, and the openness of a meetup anyone can post. One needs structure, the other needs to stay loose, and a chat thread serves neither.
What we built
Adventure runs two lanes on one app: led trips on heavy stock, with a leader's mark and a real waiver flow, and open meetups on someone's ripped notebook page, that anyone can post. Signing on is signing the waiver, the single most load-bearing screen the app has, and then your name is on a trip that leaves Saturday.
Two textures of paper
The design language for the two lanes is physical: ticketed led trips on heavy stock, free meetups on a torn notebook page. The material tells you which kind of trip you are signing before you read a word.
Led trips carry a leader's mark. Open meetups carry a blank line that says anyone.
How we worked
Adventure's foundation is shipped, the two-lane model, the schema and the first crew, with screens and payments landing in later milestones. It is live and quiet on Google Play while the rest is built.
What it adds up to
Live on Google Play with its foundation shipped: the two-lane model, the schema and the first crew seeded.
The waiver flow sits at the core, so led trips carry the liability structure a real leader needs.
Open meetups stay deliberately loose, so anyone can post a trip without the ceremony of a led adventure.
An Ecodia product.
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