Designing a Music Platform: Case Study from Concept to Beta

Designing a Music Platform: Case Study from Concept to BetaDesigning a Music Platform: Case Study from Concept to Beta

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Aliaksandr Arekhva

pro

• Jun 26

New case study: Designing a Creator-Owned Music Platform From Zero to Beta

For 21 months I was the sole product designer at TheFlow, a cooperative music platform built for artists who want to own their work.

I designed the entire iOS experience end-to-end: onboarding, feed, search, library, profiles, messaging, notifications, subscriptions, payments, artist dashboard, music upload flows, and moderation tools. Worked directly with the founder on product strategy, feature definition, edge cases, and developer handoff.

This one covers how I approached building a complex product from scratch with real constraints and no existing design system to lean on.

Check it out: https://contra.com/p/rMlsMqZ6-designing-a-creator-owned-music-platform-from-zero-to-beta

Claude Figma Figma Make

From an upload form to a publishing system

max

• Sep 14

Need design without hiring a team? FANCY works as your design team on subscription.

Mobile Design UI Design UX Design Figma

Luis Andrey Ramirez Chavarria

pro

• Sep 13

I am gathering cool references for my own work as a Motion Designer, and this one caught my eye this week. Day 3 of 60-days-collecting-awesome-motion-design-references I love the way this is designed, based on abstract shapes and concepts with a coding visual language that we are all already familiar with. This is a great reference in this modern era where we deal more and more with products and services that live on the internet, not on a physical product. This animation was created by Odd Fellows in collaboration with Figma.

Adobe After Effects Motion Design Figma

Diego Sánchez

• Sep 14

60 days of references is a serious commitment. Curious, are you mostly drawn to the same visual language each time, or does it shift a lot depending on the day?

M Aadil Ali

• Sep 14

I Just Created HYDRUM VEIL 🔥

HYDRUM VEIL is a skincare brand built around a premium SPF 50+ sunscreen, developed as a complete brand identity, packaging design, and seasonal advertising campaign.

The project explores a question most seasonal beauty work gets wrong: how do you make a limited-edition campaign feel festive without making it feel cheap?

Instead of stacking decorative props, the campaign holds a strict visual system - vivid pumpkin orange, deep twilight violet, warm cream, and restrained black and lets a single product carry every frame.

Drop your replies in cmnts.....!!!!! 🙌

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