Designing for Safety

Designing for Safety

Designing for Safety

Building trust into a queer online dating experience

Building trust into a queer online dating experience

Building trust into a queer online dating experience

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Creating Safe Spaces

Flurr's approach to safety addressed a pattern we heard in our user research: queer and BIPOC users didn't trust dating apps to protect them.


I worked as the Founding Product Designer on a small team: two founders, two designers, one engineer, and one user researcher. My focus was onboarding and the match experience, with safety embedded throughout.


I spearheaded the design of safety features into onboarding, dual-confirm matching that requires mutual interest before messaging, reporting and blocking accessible from the conversation view, and preference filtering that respects user specifications.

Client:

NDA

My Role:

Founding Designer

Year:

2025-2026

Service Provided:

Product Design, UX/UI

Distrust in Dating Apps

"Huge influx of scammers… men posing as women… AI bots."

"If somebody outside my specifications can swipe on me… delete an app immediately."


According to Pew Research Center, 69% of Queer online daters have experienced harassment on dating apps, compared to 52% of straight users. Users expected zero tolerance from the start, and would leave the moment an app failed that expectation.