Unblocking Horizon Worlds by Restoring Reliable Navigation
Led a cross-team redesign of Horizon Worlds navigation, restoring reliability to a critical system that was blocking development, playtests, and feature delivery across the platform.
Product Design Lead | Meta | Horizon Worlds
What I Owned
Took ownership of a platform critical navigation failure affecting all Horizon Worlds teams
Led end to end UX definition across social, server, matchmaking, and instancing systems
Reconstructed undocumented system behavior by working directly with engineering partners
Defined the first shared navigation model and UX documentation for the platform
Drove alignment across multiple teams to ship under tight platform constraints
Outcomes
Improved party navigation success rate from 25% to 99.75%
Unblocked playtests and feature development after three months of stalled attempts
Recovered 200 people days per week in development velocity
Delivered and shipped the solution in three weeks
Navigation system remains in use as Horizon Worlds’ standard flow