Onboarding
A focused setup flow helps users choose the areas they care about without front-loading too many decisions. Large targets, plain language, and clear progress make the first experience feel calm and direct.
Collaborative mobile product design • 2026
Making everyday wins easier to see.
Apollo is a social app that helps people capture the progress that usually goes unnoticed. My role focused on three moments that make that idea useful over time: a guided onboarding, a personal profile, and a calendar that turns daily wins into a visual history.
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A social space built around progress, not pressure.
Apollo began with a simple insight: meaningful progress often happens in small, quiet moments that never feel important enough to celebrate. The app gives those moments a home by letting people capture daily wins and share them with close friends who can witness the work behind the outcome.
The wider product direction is intentionally calm and ADHD-conscious. Instead of an endless feed, attention-grabbing color, or shame-based motivation, Apollo keeps the interface restrained so personal photos and genuine progress stay at the center.
My contribution
Three views that make progress feel personal.
I focused on the parts of Apollo that establish a user's identity and give their wins meaning over time. Each view needed to feel useful on its own while staying consistent with the product's quiet, grayscale system.
Profile view
The profile brings identity, friends, total wins, and past memories together in one place. It works as a personal archive rather than a public scoreboard, keeping the focus on what the user has built.
Calendar
The calendar turns isolated posts into a visual record. Photo-filled days make consistency visible at a glance, while month controls keep the experience familiar and easy to revisit.
Design decisions
Quiet structure lets the memories carry the color.
Apollo's interface stays nearly monochrome so the user's own photos become the emotional layer. I carried that principle through each screen while using hierarchy, spacing, and familiar patterns to keep complex information approachable.
Familiar before novel
The calendar uses a recognizable month grid so users immediately understand how to browse their history.
Identity without comparison
The profile organizes personal progress and memories without making social ranking the main event.
Choice without overload
Onboarding breaks preference setup into clear steps with large controls and one decision at a time.
The experience
From a single win to a record of becoming.
The feed captures the present, the profile gives it identity, and the calendar adds time. Together they make everyday progress easier to notice, revisit, and share with the people who matter.
Interactive Product Showcase
Start your journey with a gentle onboarding.
A walkthrough of the onboarding flow I designed — from the first open to a ready profile, without overwhelming the user.
- A gentle, guided first-run
- Set up your profile in seconds
- Built around your close friends
A home for daily wins, a profile that tells your story.
The homepage keeps the feed centered on today, while the profile view I designed gives every user a personal place to see who they are and what they've been building.
- A feed centered on daily wins
- A profile that balances social and self
- Progress you can look back on
A calendar that turns small wins into a bigger picture.
The calendar I designed gives you two ways to look back: a grid view, similar to BeReal's, that lays out every day at a glance — or a stack view that layers your photos into a collage of the memories you've been building.
- Grid view — every day at a glance
- Stack view — a collage of your photos
- Streaks and patterns over time
Outcome
A clearer foundation for returning to progress.
Apollo is still being developed and refined. My contribution helped extend the core product beyond the daily feed by giving users a gentler introduction, a clear sense of self, and a way to look back across time.
- A guided setup that introduces the product without overwhelming the user
- A profile that balances social context with personal reflection
- A calendar that makes small wins feel cumulative and worth revisiting