Browse & Watch
My journey as a designer at Twitch started with the Viewer Experience team. Our mission was to give users the best experience in finding channels they loved and diving into the live streams. With millions of channels and nearly 100K live at any moment, it was no easy task. Live and long-form content made it particularly difficult.
Featured Clips
In an effort to help streamers showcase their content and make them more discoverable by potential viewers, we launched Featured Clips. This was a way for streamers to curate the best clips that were taken from their channel and put them at the top of their channel page, the Twitch home page, and category pages.
Shoutouts
Shoutouts was another project to help with channel discoverability. The idea was to allow the stream or their moderators to shoutout another channel while they are live. The feature was extremely well received by the community.
Schedule Reminder
Live content is tricky. Unlike YouTube, you have to watch a channel when it is live on Twitch. VODs (video on demand) are recorded of the stream, but then viewers are missing out on chatting with other members of the community while the stream is live. And the interactions with other members of the community is Twitch’s real secret sauce.
We designed schedule reminders to make it easier for viewers to catch upcoming streams when they are live.
