LAMP(2025) ReVamp 🧛🏾♀️
It's Letterboxd for music.
Ongoing redesign & development of my university capstone to build a fuller, identity-driven music platform.
interaction & graphic designer
fullstack developer
march 2026 - current
Next.js, Vercel, Figma
context
Walkthrough video — originally created as part of a Shopify apprenticeship application (March 2026)
LAMP began as my university capstone project. The first version explored the idea of a music diary platform, but academic deadlines and technical constraints capped how far we could take it.
The itch to revisit it finally hit about a week ago (writing this early March 2026) — I've got more time, creative capacity, and experience in creative programming and interaction design now.
LAMP V2 is an ongoing redesign for exploring identity-driven discovery, playful album interactions, and community-driven listening spaces.
roles
we are a team of two
Sarah Yoon, fellow creative code nerd and bird genius, is the teams lead backend developer and backend specialist.
For this project I worked as frontend developer & interaction designer (plus graphic design, UI, and everything in between)
current exploration
LAMP V2 is still early, but here's what's taking shape across discovery, interaction, and community.
old user sign in screen
(lamp 2025)
new sign in screen (design in progress)
(lamp. v2, 2026)
Identity-driven discovery
Exploring how a listener's type — Audiophile, Explorer, Critic, Fan — could shape what they find next, instead of relying on algorithmic feeds alone.
Playful album interaction
Testing interaction models — picking through CDs, vinyl, or cassettes — that make revisiting an album feel more like flipping through a collection than scrolling a library.
Community Listening spaces
Rethinking what a comment or review section could feel like for listeners instead of influencers — less hierarchy, more shared reflection.
process
Research & competitive analysis
I looked at how other platforms handle discovery and cataloging
How might we create a platform for listeners - and not influencers
to share, reflect, and connect?
Listener archetypes
Rather than one-size-fits-all feeds, LAMP is built around four listener types — Audiophile, Explorer, Critic, Fan — each engaging with music differently. These archetypes drive how discovery and interaction are being redesigned for V2.
Interaction models
Early interaction concepts explored album browsing through physical-media metaphors — flipping through CDs, vinyl, cassettes — instead of a scroll-based library. V2 is revisiting these models with more room to experiment than the original semester timeline allowed.
wireframes
mapping, wireframes, user journeys, and scheming
sitemap, user flows & lo-fi wireframes — figma, march 2026
Before touching hi-fi, Sarah and I mapped out the full site architecture and user flows across five core sections: auth, core app, search, artist pages, and profile.
The lo-fi pass was for getting the logic right making sure the identity-driven discovery system actually made sense as a navigation structure before we committed to visuals.
hi-fi prototype flows- the system connected so far … (mueheh)
redesigns
identity shift, intention in interaction, and aesthetic pivot
We made an intentional shift from v1's early-2000s Macintosh look to a modernized Class Bottle Green meets 2000's CRT-inspired direction for v2. Although we really liked the scrappiness and diy look of V1- our execution gave off unpolished, rushed feel - with flat, generic UI patterns that didn't feel considered. For v2, we grounded the visual language in physical media: CRT scan lines, hardware textures, and era-specific formats that tap into real nostalgia triggers rather than a generic "retro" gesture.
The aesthetic pivot wasn't just cosmetic; it was in service of an identity-driven experience that reflects how people actually relate to music, rather than treating every listener the same way.
design system evolution
design system / style guide draft 2025
design system / style guide draft 2026
typography
Explore Albums
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Alliigator Bites Never Heal • Doechii
cd jewel case
prototype
"Final" Product
LAMP is a music diary platform — Letterboxd for music — where four listener archetypes shape how you discover and engage with music, instead of one generic feed for everyone.
Explore page (August 2026) albums held in jewel-case frames
for the future
Reflections & What's Next
LAMP V2 is still in motion — discovery and interaction are further along than community, and backend work is catching up to where the design currently sits. The identity-driven archetypes are shaping the product's direction, but haven't been tested with real listeners yet, which is the next real unknown to solve for, and something I've learned to prioritize through this redesign process.
The goal is a working release by the end of 2026 — not a polished, feature-complete app, but a version people can actually use to catalog and reflect on music the way this whole project set out to explore. :)
For technical updates follow our public git repository! Thank you for reading!
made with love and some more fun stuff
©daisy fernandez-reyes 2026
last updated august 2026