{"id":4254,"date":"2017-03-06T00:19:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T07:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/making-whatsapp-more-timezone-friendly\/"},"modified":"2017-03-06T00:19:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T07:19:55","slug":"making-whatsapp-more-timezone-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/making-whatsapp-more-timezone-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Making WhatsApp more timezone friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recommendations to make WhatsApp more friendly to communicate across timezones<\/h4>\n

My family, stuff<\/a> cousins and I spend so much time confirming the correct time to video call in each others time zones. With two timezones its barely manageable. Now imagine this across 3 or 4 timezones.<\/p>\n

There have been many incidents of people calling me when I\u2019m in deep sleep or me waking them up. So as a designer, buy<\/a> this was a problem that needed\u00a0solving.<\/p>\n

Lets start with the\u00a0calls<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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An alert when calling late at\u00a0night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Calling across timezones, especially at night, could be made more friendly.<\/p>\n

Next up: within\u00a0chats<\/h4>\n
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Auto-generate local times based on everybody\u2019s location within\u00a0chats<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Within chat groups with multiple timezone participants, this implementation could make it much more efficient.<\/p>\n

This could also be implemented in regular SMSes and even the dialer. Latest versions of Samsung\u2019s smartphones display a \u201cLocal time\u201d label by the called number\u2019s area code. With a more globalized world, these nifty additions could make a difference in the way we use our\u00a0devices.<\/p>\n

Tools used to create the UI and animations: Sketch, Flinto, and GIF Brewery\u00a03<\/em><\/p>\n

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Making WhatsApp more timezone friendly<\/a> was originally published in theuxblog.com<\/a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recommendations to make WhatsApp more friendly to communicate across timezones My family, stuff cousins and I spend so much time confirming the correct time to video call in each others time zones. With two timezones its barely manageable. Now imagine this across 3 or 4 timezones. There have been many incidents of people calling me… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-user-experience"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t