Cover

Overview

Cover is a mobile event discovery and ticketing app for Bolivia. Nightlife and festival listings there sit scattered across Instagram stories, WhatsApp broadcasts, and word of mouth. I designed Cover to give event-goers in La Paz, Santa Cruz, and Cochabamba one place to find what's happening and buy in, with a ticket that scans at the door even without a signal.

Problem

Event discovery in Bolivia's mid-size cities runs on informal channels: a flyer reposted to a story, a link forwarded in a group chat. No source tracks what's happening, where, or what it costs. By the time a listing reaches a buyer, the venue may have changed or the cheap tier may already be gone. Paying means a bank transfer and a screenshot standing in for a ticket. No product treated a ticket purchase like a real transaction with a real receipt.

Process

1. 01I mapped the purchase journey to four screens a user finishes in one phone session: discover, event detail, checkout, ticket. A desktop wizard can spread across ten steps; a phone screen doesn't get that room.
2. 02I took the color system from El Alto's cholets, the party halls covered in stepped geometry and saturated paint. Magenta, turquoise, and orange each mark one kind of event, and yellow is kept for the single action on each screen. Bolivian event-goers already read that palette as a night out.
3. 03I let the organizer's flyer be the event's image. Flyers are what organizers already make for Instagram, so Cover shows them as they are and puts every fact the app needs in plain text underneath.
4. 04I standardized one metadata row, an icon chip plus a label, for date and venue on the event detail. Checkout and the ticket repeat the same date, time, and venue line in the same order, so the eye learns it once.
5. 05Each ticket tier shows how many are left. The cheap tier running out becomes something you see before checkout, not something you find out after a bank transfer.
6. 06I anchored every purchase screen with a sticky bottom bar: price and Comprar on event detail, total and Pagar on checkout. A buyer never scrolls up to check what they're about to pay.
7. 07The ticket is a white QR card on the dark app, sized for a door scanner, and saved to the phone so it opens with no signal at the venue.

Reflection

I went back and forth on the event cards more than anything else in this file. Five facts, title, date, venue, price, and category, have to fit one compact card without turning it into a spreadsheet row. My first pass set the title over the flyer with a dark scrim. It looked fine on my own mock flyers, then fell apart on the kind organizers actually post, which already carry their own type everywhere: two titles fighting, the price lost in a crowd of DJ names. I moved the text into its own block under the flyer. The card got taller, and I still catch myself wanting that height back when I scroll eight events in a row. I don't have a clean answer yet. It's the first thing I'd put in front of real users before touching the visuals again.