Game Jolt

Director of Design

Design Systems

UX

Interaction Design

Android / IOS

Brand

Social Media for Gen Z & Alpha Gaming

I joined Game Jolt as the Director of Design for their social platform, touching all aspects of product design for web, iOS, Android, and our standalone desktop app over my year on the team. In my role, I led design as the principal product designer working directly with our CTO and development team, and managed art direction for all product needs with both full-time and contract illustrators.

Tying animation and haptics together for quest completion was key to creating an engaging experience

Daily quests drive engagement across the platform, rewarding people for interacting with other users’ content and livestreams

As users interact with content on Game Jolt, quests track completion and unlock available rewards

New quests are built through a moderator dashboard that allows the events team to tie nearly every action type and reward together in flexible combinations

Originally designed for mobile, questing was built out for web shortly after its sucesssful launch on the app

A new quest

I partnered with our CTO and Director of Events to launch a social questing system for Game Jolt that has grown into a defining feature for the platform. Following its release, questing is now a core driver for platform engagement, user onboarding, and Game Jolt’s revenue-sharing program for creators.

3000+

Daily Active Users

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Settings for audio / video setup were moved into a single menu, with quick access buttons below the stream to quickly mute or turn off video

Redesigning firesides started with improving the host onboarding experience

Multiple hosts can stream in one room together, allowing viewers to swap between perspectives while listening to the shared audio stream

The new design allows for more flexible layout configurations, including collapsed chat and full screen options

Expanding the stream overlays minimal user controls that fade away for a true full screen experience

Encouraging users to host via the desktop app for an easier and more stable experience was key to increasing desktop app downloads

The mobile update included additional features for hosts enabling them to use their phones as a companion app to manage viewers and chat

Livestream with friends

Redesigning the livestreaming experience with a new UI and onboarding flow reinvigorated the feature just in time for two major end-of-summer events on Game Jolt, doubling usage across the platform long term. The new flow was also a huge win for our events team, reducing the difficulty of introducing new people to the feature during pre-event setup.

2x

Feature usage after redesign

Personalization

Game Jolt users love personalizing their content across the platform and wanted more than the existing theme system. The design for adding backgrounds on posts was created with the design system in mind and later implemented in features like chat rooms and firesides.

Design system

I launched a design system bringing together Game Jolt’s disparate web and app UIs, working closely with our app and front end developers to align the system as closely as possible to the development frameworks underneath.

Home page redesign

To highlight Game Jolt’s incredible user-generated content and drive sign up retention, I redesigned the home page to mimic the feel of the Game Jolt app feed with an endless scroll of curated content from Game Jolt’s most talented creators, boosting 7-day retention by 150%.

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