Jan-Ole Baars

Experience Design

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💼 Client Work

In a collaboration with a platform for public participation, a unique concept for marketing the website where developed utilizing AR to make public participation go “viral”.

2024
The Client

Introducing senf.koeln

Senf is a online platform and app designed and developed by Tassilo Morino for public participation and generation of citizen insight. It allows anyone to share, upvote and discuss ideas on an interactive map.

October 2020

Originally designed with collaboration with the city of Cologne in mind, the collaboration did not manifest, creating a need for a strong marketing campaign to promote the platform.

Goals of Campaign

  1. Strengthen social media following
  2. Grow the user base on the platform
  3. Establish Senf as a movement

Augmented Reality for Public Participation

The Results are in

↑ 200%

Followers

↑ 233%

App Sign Ups

↑ 400%

Idea Votes

↑ 150%

Ideas Submitted

The innovative AR filters played a crucial role in the campaign’s success, driving significant user engagement on social media. By allowing users to visualize and share their city experiences, the filters perfectly matched Senf’s forward-thinking brand. This creative approach resulted in impressive growth in followers, app sign-ups, idea votes, and submissions, highlighting the effectiveness of combining cutting-edge technology with strategic marketing.