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Sawa

Social decision-making UX system

Focus
  • User flow simplification
  • Group UX
  • Frontend implementation
Sawa marketing site hero — "idk, you pick" with a phone mockup of a matched restaurant card.

The premise

Sawa is a social dining concept focused on helping groups decide where to eat.

The challenge isn’t finding options. There are already too many. The challenge is getting people to agree.

What the product gets right

Sawa, the product, is built around three things:

  • Reducing friction in group decisions
  • Simplifying interaction
  • Keeping flows lightweight

A group-decision product fails the moment it asks people to do work. Every extra tap, every extra screen, every “set up your profile first” is a place where someone drops out and the group breaks. The product has to feel like the lightest possible version of itself.

What I worked on

The marketing site and content structure. Not the app.

The brief was tone alignment: carry that same calm, lightweight feel into the surface that introduces the product. The first impression has to match what using Sawa actually feels like, which means the site has to be as low-friction as the thing it’s selling.

Earning trust through content

Two surfaces that do the convincing.

A group-decision product has to feel calm and credible before anyone installs it. The marketing site does that with two content surfaces — a live matches feed that shows the product in motion, and a curated guide section sourced from Reddit threads.

Sawa marketing site — Matches Happening Now. A live grid of group dining matches with location, headline, swipe count, and time stamps.
A live matches feed. Real squads, real restaurants, real time. Lets the product make its own case without saying "trust us."
Sawa City Food Guides — Real recommendations from real locals, powered by Reddit. Filter pills for All Cities, NYC, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Seattle.
City Food Guides, sourced from Reddit threads with attribution kept intact. Curation as proof that the app is built around real places, not just a swipe mechanic.
Long-form content and conversion

Restaurant pieces double as the install path.

Each city piece is its own page with its own URL. They earn organic traffic, hold the SEO surface for the brand, and lead the same reader into the same install prompt at the bottom.

Sawa article page — The Apple Pan, Los Angeles, CA (Since 1947). Restaurant feature with hero photography, tags, date, and editorial body.
Article pages live inside the same Sawa shell. Hero image, tags, read-time, then long-form. SEO surface and brand surface in one.
Sawa final CTA section — Ready to End the Food Fight? With an SMS download form.
One-number install path. SMS in, app link out. No account creation, no profile setup before the user has seen the value.