BSc group thesis supervision: LIvent, a location-based event discovery platform

The team built LIvent in TDDD83, LiU's bachelor project where each group of eight runs like a small startup around its own product.

Event platforms often suffer from fragmented information, weak filtering, confusing navigation and poor visibility for small local events. The team's answer was LIvent, a map-based event platform for Östergötland. It offers an interactive map synchronised with a list view, advanced filtering, event clustering and a low-friction event-creation flow.

The project ran as three implementation iterations, each followed by formative or summative usability testing. The evaluation combined the System Usability Scale (SUS), task performance and navigability measures with qualitative think-aloud sessions. The iterations measurably improved navigation and reduced information overload.

My role was the project-management side: keeping eight people's scope realistic, keeping iterations on schedule, and making sure the evaluation could answer the research question.