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The sketches are quick and fairly rough so instead of sharing those, I’ll share the designs that were created from those sketches.

Develop: challenges of designing an overlayīefore opening up a design program we started sketching and whiteboarding ideas. We updated the spec, reprioritized features, and set scope so the team was aligned before starting development. In the case of our overlay redesign, our discovery phase helped further define the product spec. This process is collaborative, the entire product team - both engineering and design - can weigh in on all aspects of the project. This document describes what we’re building, who we’re building it for, and the outcome we want to achieve. Our projects at Discord start with a product spec. More like we grew a third arm and we give amazing hugs now. It shouldn’t feel like a different product.

We should aim to include all of the quality of life and fun features of the desktop app whenever possible.

Provide an experience that mimics the joy of using the desktop app.

These actions include join voice channel, respond to a direct message, and accept an invite. The actions the majority of our users will be utilizing the overlay for should be simple, familiar, and obvious.

Camping is a bad place to realize you’re afraid of the dark.

It provides the opportunity to improve engagement, match the desktop experience more closely, and lets us introduce new features unique to the overlay.

Text chat within the overlay is something everyone wants.

If we have an existing design component or familiar flow from the desktop app we should leverage it as long as there isn’t a better contextual replacement.

Use existing design language wherever it makes sense.

If the overlay drops a game’s performance, isn’t reliable, or doesn’t resemble the desktop app, then users won’t want to use it.

Performance of the overlay is a critical part of the experience.

This includes single player, multiplayer, or massively multiplayer.

We should provide benefits to users for every type of game.

Figured some stuff out about the overlay too: We discovered We read through our feedback board, played games with our existing overlay, camped in the woods for three days, and spent time brainstorming ideas to bring to our discovery meetings.ĭuring this discovery period, we learned a lot about ourselves, our hopes, dreams, and fears. During this period, we interviewed both overlay and non-overlay users.

In order to define what a valuable overlay experience might look like, we set aside additional time for discovery during our design process. This process can be broken down into four phases: discover, define, develop, and deliver. The Discord design team’s process generally follows the double diamond method. While this focus on voice features was useful, we wanted to make the overlay useable for Discord’s other core features. This feature worked well for switching voice channels, seeing who was talking, or knowing which of your friends left their microphone unmuted ( I’m looking at you, Siegfried).