Summer internship at Teleport channeling curation and short video for community, authenticity, and creativity.

Roles Given a lot of individual flexibility, I worked from mobile design, touching on our web API, owned our customer experience and product surfaces out-of-app, set up product marketing, and lots of product.
Timeline I started my internship at Teleport as a product designer in May 2020, wrapping up full-time work on August 28th.
Impact Drove community, user research, e-commerce experience, etc. efforts, web expansion, moving to roadmapped ideas.

Teleport (at the time) was a short video app where creators could feature and sell products they owned, evolving into a platform that could let anyone set up their own curated store.

The following screens are a collection of things we've shipped out in the past months that I took a core part in designing with our CEO, product designer, and two engineers.



Quick website crafted on Webflow.

Discover

Moving away from the single-reel while we're still building community, users now find content through "discover" and "discussion" pages—also shaping more meaningful conversations around products rather than observation solely centered on awe.


Post Analytics

I identified need for and designed our post analytics (MVP deployed on app on right) to give tastemakers sense of how well other userse were receiving and interacting with their content.


Product

Being a very small team, I explored a lot on product: creating specs, conducting research and advocating for decisions from my lens as a designer, aligning the cross-functonal team.
I loved writing documentation and details on Notion, crafting diagrams and whiteboarding with people over Figma, surveying our backlog and moving into high-impact areas while still shipping insanely fast.


Insights

Creation, community, creator empowerment

I was drawn to Teleport because of the prospect of empowering creators. The economy of the future is rooted in creation and community: things I got to see first-hand while working with the startup.