Luminous Connection

Social Networking App Design Template

Orbit is a social networking app design with a warm, glowing look, built for founders and designers shipping a community or photo-sharing product.

Use this template

Social networking app feed screen with story orbits and a full-bleed photo post

Social networking app explore screen with a bento mosaic grid and topic chips

Social networking app post detail screen with photo, stats, and comments

Explore the screens

Preview the social networking mobile app design, fully editable in Sleek.

ProfileScreen 4

NotificationsScreen 5

Direct MessagesScreen 6

ComposeScreen 7

About the Social Networking App

Orbit is a social networking app design template built around a "Luminous Connection" aesthetic: a soft paper-white base, near-black text, and a single electric-coral accent reserved for follow buttons, active tabs, and unread dots, with a periwinkle secondary for links and mentions. The feed is borderless, a continuous tonal flow separated by whitespace and hairline dividers rather than boxed cards, so the focus stays on people and photos.

The template ships seven connected screens that form a complete social flow: a Feed with Story orbits and full-bleed posts, a bento-style Explore mosaic, a Post detail with threaded comments, a Profile with follower counts and a photo grid, grouped Notifications, a Direct Messages list, and a Compose creator. The signature "Orbit ring", a coral-to-periwinkle gradient wrapping active avatars, recurs across stories, profiles, and the active-now row to signal who is live.

Use it in Sleek and make it yours: restyle the palette, edit any screen with AI by describing the change, and add the flows your product needs. Then export it to code, copy it into Figma, or hand a prompt to an AI agent to build it for real, far faster than starting from a blank canvas.

Screens included

Feed

A top row of rotating Story orbits sits above a borderless vertical flow of posts, each with avatar, name, timestamp, a full-bleed photo, and a like, comment, and share row. A squeezable coral "Post" pill floats bottom-right.

Explore

A bento-style mosaic grid of trending photos in varied tile sizes, topped by a "Search Orbit" bar and topic chips like For You, Travel, Food, and Design. The discovery surface for finding new people and content.

Post detail

The full photo with author and location, a likes, comments, and saves count row, a threaded comment list, and a sticky comment composer at the bottom. Where conversation happens around a post.

Profile

A hero with the avatar wrapped in an Orbit ring, name, bio, and post, follower, and following counts, plus Follow and Message pills, a Recent Orbits row, and a three-column photo grid.

Notifications

Grouped activity rows split into New and Earlier, with likes, follows, comments, and mentions, coral unread highlights, and inline Follow Back buttons. Keeps users on top of their circle's activity.

Direct Messages

An active-now row of friends with coral active rings sits above a conversation list with avatars, last-message previews, timestamps, and unread dots. The private side of the network.

Compose

A post creator with a "What's happening in your orbit?" caption field, a large photo or video picker, and Add Location, Tag People, and Audience options. The screen for sharing a new post.

Key features

Luminous Connection aesthetic: paper-white base with one coral accent
Signature Orbit ring: animated coral-to-periwinkle gradient on active avatars
Borderless feed with hairline dividers and generous whitespace
Story orbits row that subtly rotates at the top of the feed
Squeezable coral compose pill with press-depth
Five-icon bottom bar with a solid-coral active state
Bento-style explore mosaic with search and topic chips
Threaded comments with a sticky composer and live unread dots

Who it's for

Founders validating a social networking or community MVP

Product designers needing a photo-sharing app starting point

Indie developers building a social or group-chat app

Startup teams prototyping a content-sharing network

What you can build

Launch an MVP for a social networking or community product
Mock up screens for an investor or stakeholder pitch
Hand a complete, consistent social UI off to developers
Explore a redesign of an existing feed-based app

How to use this template

1
Open the template
Browse the screens and preview the full design to see if it fits your idea.
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Use this template
Open your own fully editable copy in Sleek with one click.
3
Edit with AI
Restyle the palette, change layouts, and add or remove screens just by describing what you want.
4
Export and ship
Export your design or hand it to developers, and keep building toward launch.

Questions, answered. Everything to know before you start.

How do I build a social networking app from this template?

Click "Use this template" to open Orbit in Sleek as your own editable project, then shape it by describing the changes you want: restyle the palette, edit any screen, and add the flows your product needs. You start from seven complete screens instead of a blank canvas, so you reach a working social networking app design far faster.

What screens are included in this social networking app UI template?

Seven connected screens: Feed, Explore, Post detail, Profile, Notifications, Direct Messages, and Compose. Together they cover the core flow of a real social app, from browsing the feed and discovering content to messaging friends and posting.

Can I customize the social networking app design?

Yes. Use the template in Sleek and edit any screen by chatting with the AI: change the coral and periwinkle accents, adjust layouts, and add or remove flows. There's no manual redraw; you describe the change and it's applied.

What is the Orbit ring in this design?

The Orbit ring is the signature motif: a thin coral-to-periwinkle gradient that wraps active or live users' avatars across the feed's Story row, profiles, and the active-now row in messages. It signals at a glance who is online and recurs throughout the app for a consistent look.

Is this template suitable for a photo-sharing or community app?

Absolutely. The feed, explore mosaic, profile grid, and messaging screens map cleanly onto photo-sharing, interest communities, or group-chat networks. Adjust the content, topics, and avatars to fit your niche.

Can I export the design to code or Figma?

Yes. Sleek exports your design as code, copies straight into Figma with no plugin, or hands you a ready-made prompt that an AI agent like Claude Code or Cursor can use to build it into a real, working app.

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