2026
Atrium
Role
Product Designer
Software
Figma
The everyday app for life in a shared building
Tenants and residents don't want a dashboard — they want to know what's happening today, and a fast way to flag what's broken. Most tenant portals give them neither: buried menus, generic admin panels, and no clear line between "official notice" and "someone's post."
Atrium is built around exactly two things people actually open the app for: a feed and reporting an issue — nothing else competing for attention.
The idea
A building isn't a company. Residents don't think in KPIs — they think "is anything wrong today, and did I miss anything." So Atrium reads like a feed, not a control panel: a pinned notice from management up top, a scrollable stream of updates below, likes and comments included, because a real community reacts to things.
The one rule that shaped every screen: if it feels like an analytics tool, it's wrong for this app.
01 — Home
Official notices are clearly signed by Building Management, personal posts by name and unit number — no more guessing who's talking. One notice can be pinned to the top with its own distinct card, so the one thing that matters today doesn't get lost in the scroll.
02 — Issue Detail
Opening a reported issue gives staff everything in one glance: category, urgency, reporter contact, and — new here — a real activity timeline showing exactly when it was reported, picked up, and assigned. No more guessing where a request stands.
03 — Upload file
Uploading a file to the building's shared library follows one honest pattern: pick a category, set visibility, then choose exactly who sees it — with the selection confirmed as visible chips before anything is submitted, so nothing gets shared to the wrong audience by accident.
04 — Create post
Same recipient-picker pattern, reused deliberately rather than reinvented — consistency is what makes a system feel trustworthy. The one addition here: choosing to post as yourself or as Building Management, so an official notice never gets mistaken for a personal one again.
The system
A warm stone background, deep forest green as the one confident accent, Space Grotesk for headings against plain Inter for everything else. Soft corners, hairline borders, no dashboards hiding underneath — every screen answers "what's new" or "what's broken," and stops there.
Why it works
Every tenant app is tempted to become a dashboard — stats are easy to build and easy to demo. Atrium resists that on purpose. There's no percentage anywhere on the home screen, no ratio bar, no KPI card. Just a feed people actually want to scroll, and a way to report what's broken that feels like talking to a person, not filing a ticket into a void. The moment the design leans toward "impressive chart," it's solving the wrong problem — so it doesn't.
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