Selected work01 / Live product

One idea.Every digitallayer.

BarzVibe began as an idea and became a live digital product. I shaped the brand, designed the experience, built the mobile app, created the venue platform and launched the supporting digital ecosystem.

Founder, product designer and developeriOS, Android and webLive product
Barz live nightlife map showing venues across Newcastle.
Barz venue detail view for The Botanist Newcastle.

Real-time nightlife app and venue platformFounder-built

Barz — Find the VibeGoing out shouldn't feel like a gamble.

An end-to-end digital product designed and developed from the ground up, helping people discover the atmosphere inside nearby venues before deciding where to go.

Role
Founder, product designer and developer
Platforms
iOS, Android and web
Status
Live product

01Launch

From first impression to first login.

Barz was designed as a full product experience, not just an app screen. From the website and download journey through to onboarding, the brand stays consistent, clear and recognisable.

Barz website homepage showing branding, app download buttons and supporting links.
01Marketing website

02Contribute

The community keeps the map alive.

People can add a live status while they are out, helping the next person understand what a venue feels like right now. Contributions are rewarded with XP.

Barz live status update sheet with options including Buzzing, Medium, Quiet, Queue, Happy Hour, Student Night, Live Music and DJ.
01Live status update
Barz confirmation message showing a successful vibe update and 10 XP earned.
02Community contribution

03Explore

Turn a night out into a route.

Bar Crawls lets people create and follow local routes, then move straight from the crawl into a mapped journey with each stop clearly numbered.

Barz Bar Crawls screen showing a Newcastle big night out route with four venue stops.
01Bar Crawls
Barz map showing the Newcastle big night out route with four numbered venue stops.
02Route on map

What I builtOne connected product

Creative vision+technical delivery.

01

Mobile product

A location-based iOS and Android experience featuring live venue reports, interactive maps, search, user accounts and social discovery tools.

02

Venue platform

A dedicated browser-based portal giving venues access to verification, engagement tools, subscriptions and customer insight.

03

Brand and digital ecosystem

Product identity, website, onboarding journeys, marketing assets, app-store presence and the supporting technical infrastructure.

More content is coming.

The product is live.The case study keeps evolving.

This page uses real screens from the live app today.