# Waveroom

Principal designer on Waveroom — a browser-based remote studio with a cross-platform design system and UX built around the constraints of recording in the browser.

- Role: Principal Designer
- Company: Waveroom
- Project type: Product Design
- Duration: 2022 — 2023
- Scope: End-to-end UX, brand platform, token-based design system
- Contributions: Product design, brand platform, design system, and design leadership
- Live: https://www.waveroom.com/
- Canonical page: https://skruglov.com/projects/waveroom/

Remote recording in the browser comes with a specific set of constraints: local capture, codec differences across devices, latency, dropped connections, post-processing. Every UX decision on Waveroom had to account for one of those. I was Principal Designer.

Two things made this project interesting. The first was the UX itself — building flows that felt simple for a podcaster while hiding a lot of technical complexity underneath. The second was the design system: Waveroom needed to work across web, iOS, and desktop, and multimedia interfaces have edge cases that generic component libraries do not cover. I built the system from the ground up for that.

The result was a product with a consistent cross-platform UI, a brand platform built from scratch, and a design foundation the team could actually work with as the product grew.

![Waveroom — recording studio interface]()

![Waveroom — session setup flow]()

![Waveroom — brand system]()

![Waveroom — design system components]()

![Waveroom — mobile experience]()