Comi is a swipe-style roommate matching app built for universities, with a commercial version designed to scale beyond the campus. Finding a roommate today is a patchwork of group chats, DMs, and half-filled matching forms — a high-stakes decision made with almost no real information. Comi turns that into something familiar: a swipe-forward interface that makes compatibility quick to read, with the questions that actually predict who you can live with surfacing underneath. The brand sits in the tension between cool and trust — casual enough that students actually want to use it, credible enough that schools and parents take it seriously. Its mascot doubles as the app’s assistant: a smile that, turned over, becomes a roof with two people under it.
In collaboration with Tayra Morhayim
MVP built in React with Claude Code
One mark carries the brand. Upright it’s a face: two eyes and a smile. Turned over, the smile becomes a roof with two people under it — roommates. The rest of the system comes straight from the app’s own design tokens: SF Pro, one teal and the iOS greys, so the brand and the product speak the same language.
The mascot moved into the product as Comi’s assistant: it picks matches on Home, guides students through sign-up, suggests icebreakers in chat, and celebrates the big moments — a delighted face on a match, then the smile flips into a roof with two people under it when you become roommates.
Initial UX research and version 1 of the app — a commercial roommate & apartment finder. After this phase, the project pivoted into an .edu-gated, student-only platform rather than a fully commercial consumer app.
