Official design contest · April 2024
Third place in Telegram’s official design contest, with three features it didn’t have
Three new features for Telegram, each prototyped for iOS and Android, for the official Telegram design contest.
Entries come from designers who work in Telegram’s visual language every day.
Collaborative message editing, slow mode notifications, and smart organization for saved messages.
Twice each. Once to iOS conventions, once to Android.
The contest gives you the app and no brief.
Find what Telegram is missing, then design it inside Telegram’s own conventions. It has to work on both platforms.
- Contribution
- UI Design
- Duration
- 1 month
The hard part is the constraint
Every screen has to look like it already shipped, using only components the app already has. And each feature had to be designed twice: iOS and Android say the same thing differently.
Six prototypes, all animated.
Static screens would not show how any of it behaves.
Collaborative message editing
Two channel admins can edit the same message at once, whether it is scheduled or already published.
Slow mode notifications
Throttles notifications for one chat, batching them into one-minute intervals so a busy chat stops flooding the phone.
Smart organization for saved messages
Saved messages get automatic tags. Sorting and finding things again stops being a scroll.
Third place.
Happy to walk through the parts that did not fit here. Let’s get on a call.
