Tattooing lives on Instagram, a network never designed for it. Artists lose booking requests in overflowing DMs, clients can't filter by style, city or availability, and the algorithm buries the work after forty-eight hours.
No single platform to discover tattoo artists and studios, follow their work, and book an appointment.
An app combining a social network, studio and artist profiles, and direct booking with artists and shops.
A client finds the artist, follows their work and books without leaving the app. The tattooist stops running their diary out of direct messages.
The filter tattooing never had: by style, city, availability. The image owns the screen, because the image is the pitch.
Interactive mockup rebuilt for this portfolio. The values shown illustrate the interface — they are not production figures.
The portfolio is the product
In this trade, the image is the sales pitch. The whole interface is built around showing the work, not around a feed.
Separate artist from studio
An artist may be independent, guesting, or attached to a studio. The data model reflects that reality instead of forcing it into one box.
Booking in the same gesture
Discover then book without switching apps or opening a private conversation. That's where the difference with Instagram is won.
- 01The interface deliberately steps back: magenta and violet frame the page, the tattoo stays the only real colour on screen.
- 02An irregular mosaic grid rather than identical squares. A portfolio has no standard format.
- 03Artist and studio pages share a structure but not a density: you don't read a shop the way you read a profile.
- 04The booking request looks like a short form, not a conversation. That's what makes it processable.
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