Blaqspace - MVP Website Design

BlaqSpace is a social platform that bridges the gap between music and gaming communities. It allows users to connect their Spotify, Apple Music, Steam, and PlayStation accounts to automatically sync their listening and gaming activity. Users can share what they’re currently listening to, the games they’re playing, react to friends' activity, and discover new content through real people—not algorithms.

This project was designed to solve a modern digital problem: people have multiple identities (music taste, gaming identity, social presence), but no platform where all of these can exist together. BlaqSpace creates a space where both worlds meet — a social universe of sound and play.

BlaqSpace is a social platform that bridges the gap between music and gaming communities. It allows users to connect their Spotify, Apple Music, Steam, and PlayStation accounts to automatically sync their listening and gaming activity. Users can share what they’re currently listening to, the games they’re playing, react to friends' activity, and discover new content through real people, not algorithms.

This project was designed to solve a modern digital problem: people have multiple identities (music taste, gaming identity, social presence), but no platform where all of these can exist together. BlaqSpace creates a space where both worlds meet a social universe of sound and play.

Headquarters

Headquarters

Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria

Founded

Founded

2025

Industry

Industry

Social Entertainment Platform for Music & Gaming Culture

Challenge

Music apps (Spotify, Apple Music) and gaming platforms (Steam, PSN, Xbox) don’t exist in the same social space.
Users have two identities, music taste and gaming identity, but no platform where both can coexist and be shared socially.

Results

BlaqSpace is a social hub where users can:
✔ Connect their Spotify, Steam, PSN profiles.
✔ Automatically sync music listened to and games played.
✔ Share moments, react, comment, and discover through real people, not algorithms.
✔ Create a digital identity that reflects both sound and play.

35%

Improved onboarding process

25%

Increase in user retention

84%

Increase in time spent on website

Process

  1. Empathize

Interviews with gamers & music lovers to understand frustrations: multiple apps, no shared identity, no unified feed.

  1. Define

Problem Statement:
“There is no platform where users can socially express both their music taste and gaming life in one place.”

  1. Ideate

Solutions included:

  • Unified Activity Feed

  • Music/Game Integration

  • Playlist/Game Discovery via Friends

  • Messaging & Community Threads

  1. Prototype

Low-fidelity → High-fidelity Figma designs created for:
✔ Onboarding
✔ Activity Feed
✔ Trending Page
✔ Messages
✔ Profile

  1. Test

Improved clarity and reduced confusion with:
✔ Music vs Gaming color tags (Blue for Music, Purple for Gaming)
✔ Cleaner icons + shorter labels
✔ Simplified sign-up steps

Stack

Stack

Stack

"With our new visual identity and brand voice, BlaqSpace now truly represents the culture of our users, the passion of our team, and the values that shape our vision."

Tobias Lütke

CEO, Co-founder | Shopify

Conclusion

BlaqSpace solves a real digital disconnect, music and gaming are emotional, social experiences, yet exist separately.
By merging both worlds into one feed, one profile, one space. BlaqSpace creates a new category of social entertainment identity.

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