As Product Designer, I designed and built Sessions end-to-end; turning "aux cord chaos" into a shared listening room where everyone gets a vote, a rating, and a say in what plays next.
Try it out here: https://tinyurl.com/4za7zvsy
Timeline
June 2026
Role / Context
Product Designer / Passion Project
Leveraged Skills
Interaction Design, AI Development
CONTEXT
When a big name artist dropped their last album, a couple of friends and I wanted to experience it together in real time. We looked for a fun, simple way to listen together, and came up empty. That gap became Sessions: a collaborative music streaming platform.
UI DESIGN
The interface takes direct inspiration from Teenage Engineering's OP-1, aiming for that same hardware feel in a browser. Rounded, pill-shaped keys, a muted grey and off-white palette, and a small embedded screen for album art and track info echo the OP-1's design language. Controls are grouped like a real device, playback on one side, numbered pads doubling as rating and voting inputs on the other, so it feels like something you'd press, not click through.
Teenage Engineering OP-1
Sessions Interface
DETAILS
Default vs Pressed States (Sound On)
FEATURES
Emoji Reacts
Group Ratings
Add a Song you like to your Spotify
Look up lyrics of New Songs
Blend some Album Arts as a Recap
Sessions runs two different tricks to keep the music moving, and they work in pretty different ways. The auto-queue is the simple one: whenever a song plays, it grabs the artist name and searches YouTube for more of that same sound, so there's always something lined up next before anyone has to think about it. The rabbit hole is the fun one. Press it, and Sessions asks Spotify's API who's musically related to whoever's playing, then goes and finds a YouTube track from that artist, something in the same neighborhood but not just more of the same. If Spotify draws a blank, it just widens the search so the detour never falls flat.
Try it for yourself here: https://tinyurl.com/4za7zvsy
If you want to know more details of this project, get in touch!
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