Social · 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.
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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.
What's inside
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.
Design & features
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
Audience
Who it's for
Use cases
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
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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.
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Edit with AI
Restyle the palette, change layouts, and add or remove screens just by describing what you want.
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Export and ship
Export your design or hand it to developers, and keep building toward launch.
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