ZeeMeeDesign Exercise

Hero pattern · #1 priority

The Admission Moment

Getting admitted is the highest-emotion moment in the ZeeMee journey. Today, the moment a student taps “I've been admitted” the app responds with a verification modal asking for an acceptance letter upload. The classmate-discovery and admitted-chat rewards sit locked behind that paperwork. This pattern replaces it with a full-screen brand takeover, a shareable card, and a one-tap hand-off into the admitted-students chat.

Before

9:41
RIT

Rochester Institute of Technology — Undergraduate Admissions

Rochester, NY, USA

We'd like to verify
your admittance

Once verified you'll be able to

  • See who's been admitted
  • Chat with other students
  • Search for roommates

Your acceptance letter or college id will not be shared.

Upload letter / student id card

Current state · 04_status_update_moment

After

9:41

You got in

Ryan,
you're a Tiger.

Welcome to Towson University, Class of 2030. We saved you a seat.

ADMITTED · TU

Class of 2030

Ryan Arthur

📷 · 🌱 · 🎸

#TU2030 #ZeeMeeClassOf2030

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2,438 other Tigers are already in

You can change your status anytime in Settings.

Full-screen Admission Moment

Design decisions

  1. Full-screen takeover. Replace the verification modal. The student lands on a hero screen that signals weight and permanence, built on bg-gradient-darkwith the school's palette tilted into the hero badge.
  2. A shareable artifact. The tilted card is sized for an Instagram or Snapchat story. Tapping Share my card renders the same card to the camera roll. That's free distribution at the highest-affinity moment in the funnel.
  3. Social proof.The avatar stack of mutually-admitted classmates and the “2,438 other Tigers are already in” line collapse the FOMO the audit flagged around the lock-icon “Unlock admitted chats” pattern.
  4. Forward motion. Primary CTA routes straight into the admitted-students chat with a pre-filled intro, instead of leaving the student staring at a closed sheet.
  5. Graceful regret.The footnote at the bottom (“You can change your status anytime in Settings”) takes the shame out of decommitting later. That matches the audit's “treat decommit as life happening” call.

What it's built from

Built entirely from this design system. No one-off custom components. The same primitives serve everyday list rows and this flagship hero.

PhoneFramebg-gradient-darkAvatarStackButton (gradient + outline)Sparkles + Share2 iconsMotion · 800ms · emphasizedtext-gradient-brandConfetti @keyframeShareable card composition

What happens next in the demo

The Admission Moment is the post-admit event. Its onboarding-time analogues thread through the demo flow:

  • Screen 08 · Welcome. The end-of-onboarding celebration. ZeeMee-brand neutral because no admit has fired yet. The polaroid honors the student's identity (class year, hometown, name) across all schools they picked.
  • Screen 08b · Share polaroid. The share-out artifact reached from the Welcome screen's secondary CTA. Polaroid centered in a school-gradient 9:16 canvas, stage word, hashtag, Save to Camera Roll. This is the organic-acquisition lever in onboarding-time form.

Measuring success

  • % of admitted students who tap “Share my card” (new top-line metric, proxy for organic acquisition).
  • 7-day retention from the Admission tap (vs. the legacy verification-modal baseline).
  • % who post their first intro in the admitted-students chat within 24 hours.
  • Funnel from admitted to enrolled status update. Does the celebration carry forward into commitment?