Visual Space carries familiar navigation, media, feedback, and preference controls across the product. Users can move between spaces, content, conversations, and live apps without relearning common actions.
Return And Continue
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Session continuity - Returning users can reload or resume the app while their browser sign-in session remains active.
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Direct links - Links can open the intended space, profile, article, activity, or live-app file instead of dropping users at the main feed. For work saved intentionally, the View Later guide explains how to return to the right place.
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Public browsing - Signed-out visitors can explore public areas, while restricted actions explain when sign-in or space membership is needed.
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Helpful interruptions - Missing pages, temporary limits, blocked access, and failed actions appear as clear feedback with a way forward.
Files And Media
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Familiar file browsing - File-based live apps share one browser for spaces, areas, and folders, with clear loading, empty, and error states. The Files and Previews guide explains what opens from a file card.
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Clear upload limits - Uploads show progress and explain when a file is too large or a space needs more storage.
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Focused media viewing - Users can browse photos and videos in a lightbox, zoom images, open originals, and delete media when they have permission.
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Gallery navigation - Users can move between media with thumbnails or arrow keys while keeping the selected item in view.
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Protected media - Media from private areas and direct messages remains available only to people with access.
Saving And Recovery
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Visible save progress - Supported live apps distinguish pending changes, uploads, saving, and confirmed saves in their background activity feedback.
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Interrupted work - Offline, failed-save, and conflict notices help users recognize changes that still need attention.
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Retained changes - Canvas and Pixels offer recovery actions to retry saving or resume retained changes when a document needs attention.
Release Updates
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Read before updating - When a web update is available, users can open its release notes from the update action beside their spaces.
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Keep your place - Closing release notes returns users to their current page, while Read article opens the full notes in another tab.
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Choose when to reload - Reload to update lets users apply the available version after saving their work.
Feedback And People
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Consistent reactions - Users can add or remove emoji reactions on supported content and messages, view counts, and see who reacted.
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Quick people actions - User menus bring together profile, direct-message, space invitation, and recognition actions when each option is available.
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Permission-aware roles - Space owners and people with role-management permission can update a member's roles from the same user menu.
Personal Preferences
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Responsive navigation - Navigation adapts across desktop, tablet, and mobile layouts while keeping the active page in context.
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Remembered theme - Light and dark mode changes appear immediately and return on the same device, including for signed-out visitors.
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Account theme sync - Signed-in users can carry their saved theme preference across devices.
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Optional analytics - Users can choose Essential only or Accept all, with essential storage available either way.
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Review cookie choices - Manage settings explains each category, and users can reopen Cookie preferences to change their choice at any time.
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Remembered choices - Both accepting and declining analytics are remembered on the device.