Ti: A Queer Social Network

‘Ti: A Queer Social Network’ is a research and design project that focuses on the interplay of identity, queerness, and social networking. Social networks have the power to affect self-identity, and play a significant role in the identity construction of the queer people who use them. My user research revealed some stark disconnects between the activity of LGBTQ+ people on social networks and the platforms and wider environment that exist to serve them. Ti was designed as a response: a social media offering that is better aligned with the people using it, and addresses larger infrastructural queer-specific needs such as platform moderation and data protection.