abhishek rampal. Case study
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Pomplee Dating App

A location-based dating app that helps people meet someone nearby — and get from a first look to a first message in a few taps.

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Client
Confidential
Role
Solo designer
Project
Client project
Platform
Mobile app
Pomplee dating app screens in red-orange: splash, phone sign-up, verification and profile setup

Overview

Pomplee is a dating app for people who want to meet someone close by. It shows who’s around you, lets you like someone — or send a stronger signal, a “Pomp” — and opens a conversation the moment two people like each other.

I designed it for a client, whose details are confidential, as the only designer, covering the whole experience from signing up to staying in control of your profile and privacy.

Problem

The app needed to take someone from sign-up to their first conversation quickly, while giving them control over who they see and who can reach them.

Key decisions

  1. Sign up with a phone number. Onboarding starts with a mobile number and a six-digit verification code, then a short profile setup: name, birthday and gender, followed by who you’re interested in, your city and an age-range slider.
  2. Three ways to browse nearby people. A single profile card with skip, star and like buttons; a grid toggle that shows six profiles at once with the same actions on each; and a Map Search view that places people on a map.
  3. A signature “Pomp”. The star button sits at the centre of the action row and the tab bar, has its own Super Pomp screen, and a match is announced as “It’s a Pomp” with Send Message and Keep Playing.
  4. Safety within reach. Every profile ends with Report User, which opens a short list of reasons. Settings and My Profile give access to blocked users, a Hide me switch and Delete my account.

Design

The experience feels warm and energetic. Big photos put people first, and every choice — pass, like or Pomp — is a single tap on a round, colour-coded button: a red cross to pass, a green check to like, a red heart to favourite. Moving between discovering people, chatting and your own profile works the same way everywhere, and the tools to report or block someone are always close by.

The visual language is a bold red-orange gradient with white cards, rounded pill buttons and a clean sans-serif, with a playful heart in the Pomplee wordmark.

Sign-up and profile setup

Pomplee sign-up screen asking for a mobile number, with the number blurred
Mobile number
Verify Number screen with a six-digit code and a Verify button
Verification code
Profile Setup screen with name, birthday and gender fields
Profile setup

Discover

Nearby screen showing one profile card with skip, star and like buttons
Nearby: card view
Nearby screen in grid view with six profile cards
Nearby: grid view
Map Search screen with profile photos placed on a map
Map search

Match and chat

Match screen reading “It’s a Pomp — You and Lisa like each other” with Send Message and Keep Playing
Match
Chat list with recent matches across the top and conversations below
Chat list
Chat conversation with message bubbles and a reply field
Conversation

Profile and safety

Profile details with status, about, height, links and interest tags, ending in Report User
Profile details
Report User dialog with reasons: inappropriate photos, spam, underage, other
Report user
Settings with profession, ethnicity, interest, age and distance preferences, blocked users and delete account
Settings

Outcome

A complete set of screens for the app, from sign-up to chat, with the settings and safety screens a dating app needs around them.

What I’d do next

Test the card, grid and map views with people to see which they rely on, and review sensitive profile fields such as ethnicity for privacy and inclusivity. I’d also check the contrast of white text on the lighter orange areas.