An identity and player UI for an app that turns poems into sound.

Details

Role:: Designer (brand + product)
Timeline:: 2026 · 7 weeks
Skills:: Identity, UI, Motion, Type
Team:: 2 — designer, founder

Overview

Verse is an app that pairs poems with original, generative sound. I designed both halves — the brand that frames it and the player UI that holds it — so the experience feels like one considered object.

Tldr

Brand and interface as one gesture, not two projects.

I built the wordmark and palette and the player UI together, so the typography you read on the home page is the typography you read while listening.

Verse

Outcome

A small, coherent product that feels bigger than its team.

Reviewers kept assuming a larger studio was behind it. That coherence — brand and UI speaking the same language — was the whole point.