Spatial's mobile app with friends and friend requests brought in from desktop.

Spatial Friends

I brought Add Friends and friend viewing into Spatial’s mobile app, and designed a dark mode to match the desktop experience.

Aug 2024

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Overview

Context: Spatial is an immersive collaboration platform for building games and worlds for users to interact in. Its mobile app significantly lagged behind the desktop counterpart, missing essential features like adding and viewing friends.
Problem: The mobile interface forced users into the mobile browser to add and view friends. This fragmented the experience and contributed to Spatial’s low mobile engagement.

Current mobile view friends user flow

Question: How might we redesign Spatial’s mobile app, integrating the Add Friends feature and improving the ability to view friends directly within the app?
Solution: Create a seamless mobile information architecture, adjacent to the desktop experience, giving mobile users the ability to send and receive friend requests and view user profiles.

Final Design

Send & receive friend requests

View friends

Dark Mode

Spatial’s mobile app didn’t have a dark mode, while the desktop app operated exclusively in dark mode. To resolve that inconsistency and improve the experience across platforms, I designed and implemented a dark mode for the mobile app.

Mobile dark mode